The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.