“It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.”
“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body”
“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving harmony.”
“On the morning after the storm the body of a drowned giant was washed ashore on the beach five miles to the north-west of the city.”
“The great passions had never been moved by a perfect body but by an evolved mind.”
“It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.”