What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.