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• The State: friend to all, enemy of each one.
• The ignorance of one voter in a Democracy impairs the safety of us all.
• Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Democracy and Addresse...
• One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
  -- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy...
• All ceremonies are, in themselves, very silly thing
  but yet a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of manners and decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defense, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance....
• They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.
  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams -- and still calls for more....
• Until, one by one... HE DESTROYED THEM ALL!
• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
  -- James Baldwi...