In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.