If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration.

Only the bad man is alone.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

How easy it is to tell tales!