The worst government is the most moral.
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.
The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.