"People seem sheathed in their tough organization...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pure by impure is not seen.”

“It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.”

“Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.”

“The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.”

“Chinese people themselves, they really want change.”

“an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.”

“...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!”

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.”

“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”