Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.