Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author

I said it was a brutal thing.

"No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it.

I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous. Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performace of the pieties enjoined by the Church.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it - when unpopular

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.