Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

Madness in method, that's genius

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.