As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.