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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

Ada Louise Huxtable

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.