It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.