In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

Rank is a great beautifier.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.