| In the manuscript for the book, he portrays O'Hair as a foul-mouthed, bigoted misanthropist who had amassed a fortune while pleading poverty. |
| The misanthropist Alceste is nobly fanatical on behalf of sincerity and rectitude. |
| Though not a misanthropist, he appears in general to have preferred solitary communion with nature to human society. |
| Somebody intent on committing suicide or an extreme misanthropist on his death bed might prefer the whole of mankind to disappear with him. |
| He was no misanthropist, rather a philanthropist in the true sense of the word. |
| For the first time in his life, the misanthropist experiences the feeling of being important to somebody. |
