The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to be a lump mass-man toward fraud, simony, murder, and lunacies more vile than those of Commodus or Caracalla.