Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences