A Model Should Be As Simple As

Of All The Communities Available To Us, There Is Not One I Would Want To Devote Myself To Except For The Society Of The True Seekers, Which Has Very Few Living Members At Any One Time.

I Have Only Two Rules Which I Regard As Principles Of Conduct. The First Is: Have No Rules. The Second Is: Be Independent Of The Opinion Of Others.

This Topic Brings Me To That Worst Outcrop Of Herd Life, The Military System, Which I Abhor... This Plague-spot Of Civilization Ought To Be Abolished With All Possible Speed. Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism -- How Passionately I Hate Them!

It Is Strange To Be Known So Universally And Yet To Be So Lonely.

Political Leaders Or Governments Owe Their Position Partly To Force And Partly To Popular Election. They Cannot Be Regarded As Representative Of Best Elements, Morally Or Intellectually, In Their Respective Nations.