The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.