People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Society will be obeyed; if you refuse obedience, you must take the consequences. Society has only one law, and that is custom. Even religion itself is socially powerful only just so far as it has custom on its side.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.