The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship...

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship...

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain...

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain...

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly,...

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly,...

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything...

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything...

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Friends are born, not made.

Friends are born, not made.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for...

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for...

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Intimates are predestined.

Intimates are predestined.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...