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

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.

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

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

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.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.