“And so the downward man will bicker and bite about the trivial and trite.”

“He performs his duty for the sake of necessity, and not merely from a desire to be of use to others.”

“It is the unspoken laws, regardless of their actual veracity, that rules the undergirding pathways of who we are.”

“Man, it seems, is made in such a way in these complicated modern times as to be a creature in need of both unlearning and relearning the obvious.”