A Quote by John Sutherland Bonnell, DD on cynicism, endings, home, honor, life, literature, losing, men, people, purity, religion, vitality, women, and youth

When Rome's youth became debased and enervated, when regard was lost for men's honor and women's purity, when the sanctity of the home was violated, when her literature became cynical and debased, her dominion ended. The moral life of any people rises or falls with the vitality or decay of its religious life.