Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
Category Archive: 1828
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Do not use that foreign word ‘ideals.’ We have that excellent native word ‘lies.’
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
There’s no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, ‘I have it,’ merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.