Society and the World

No one loves the man whom he fears.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

As you cannot do what you want, want what you can do.

What a satire, by the way, is that machine [Charles Babbage’s calculating machine] on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein-monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that turns out results like a corn-sheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand bushels of them!

 

A delicate wit is a corruption which a nation takes a long time to acquire. It is only worn-out nations that possess it.

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

 

I rang them up while touring Timbucktoo, Those bosom chums to whom you’re known as “Who?”

 

And o’er the hills and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Through all the world she followed him.

 

Rabbit realized the world was not solid and benign, it was a shabby set of temporaryarrangements rigged up for the time being, all for the sake of the money. You just passedthrough, and they milked you for what youwere worth, mostly when you were young andgullible.

We said there warn’t no home like a raft, afterall. Other places do seem so cramped up andsmothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

They told him that their ancestors had fled the disorders of Ch’in times and, havingtaken refuge here with wives and childrenand neighbors, had never ventured out again; consequently they had lost all contact with the outside world.

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.

Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam,

Once more upon the waters, yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider!

We enact many laws that manufacturecriminals, and then a few that punish them.