The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.