"Society does not love its unmaskers...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A good deal of our politics is physiological.”

“I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.”

“Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.”

“Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.”

“The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk.”

“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”

“It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”

“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.”