Society and the World

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,

A l’aurore, armés d’une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides villes.

Memory says: Want to do right? Don’t count on me.

Rent is that portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

An evil empire.

She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she’s a woman.

Fay ce que vouldras.

Fay ce que vouldras.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Died some, pro patria,

Died some, pro patria,

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Coffee, (which makes the politician wise,

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,

Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,

Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;

For forms of government let fools contest;