In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape.