We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.
Death persecutes before it executes.
It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.