"The greater number of men are merely..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.”

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?”

“The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.”

“It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.”

“Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.”

“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”

“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.”

“That government is best which governs least.”