the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

What is life, but one long risk?

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.