Yet, if I leave it alone he will think he can do as he wishes without opposition. They must needs be trained, Hythlodaeus.

[As if they were nothing but beasts. And maybe that's exactly what they are, Steven is only helping to affirm such notions.]

Clearly my leaving him and his alone did naught, so perhaps I simply must keep him engaged, enriched, because he has not enough misery on his own, that he seeks to inspire it in others.