society
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”
“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year?”
“The nature of peoples is best revealed in their customs.”
“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, then amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.”
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.”
“Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.”
“In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.”
“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
“We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important.”
“Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.”
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”
“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”
“Men are not made to be crowded together; the spirit of the people lives in the countryside.”
“If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.”
“No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives unto no one.”
“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.”
“Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.”
“Using money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like.”
“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking.”