In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

Let's practice what we preach, and with the acceptance that we expect from others, let's stop being so damn judgmental and crucifying everyone who doesn't fit in to our boxed-in perception of what is right.

A nation never falls but by suicide

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the horn

Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored

An armed society is a polite society

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable