He loved life with a mad passion for its own sake, and the only object of his study was to find a means of living longer than other men.

All the aims and desires and complex reasonings of his being tended to this simple expression--the wish to live.

To what idolatrous self-worship Keyork Arabian might be capable of descending, if he ever succeeded in eliminating death from the equation of his immediate future, it was impossible to say.

The wisdom of ages bids us beware of the man of one idea.

He is to be feared for his ruthlessness, for his concentration, for the singular strength he has acquired in the centralization of his intellectual power, and because he has welded, as it were, the rough metal of many passions and of many talents into a single deadly weapon which he wields for a single purpose.