Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.