"My life is but a travesty and slander on myself. I have lived to belie my nature. All men do; all men are better than this disguise that grows about and stifles them. You see each dragged away by life, like one whom bravos have seized and muffled in a cloak. If they had their own control -- if you could see their faces, they would be altogether different, they would shine out for heroes and saints!" R.L. Stevenson