Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.