We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.