We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.