Have a quarantine at your front door for all books and newspapers.

Let the health doctor go abroad and see whether there is any sickness there before you let it come to wharfage.
Whether young or old, be cautious about what you read in the newspapers.
You cannot day after day go through three columns of murder trial without being a worse man than when you began.

While you are trying to find out whether Stokes was lying in wait for Fisk, Satan is lying in wait for you.
Skip that half page of divorce case.

Keep out of the mud.

The Burdell and Sickles cases, through the unclean reading they afforded to millions of people long ago, led their thousands into abandoned lives and pitched them off the edge of a lost eternity.