You Can Bear Anything If It Is

Society, By Insisting On Conventions, Has Merely Insisted On Certain Convenient Signs By Which We May Know That A Man Is Considering, In Daily Life, The Comfort Of Other People.

You Can Bear Anything If It Is Not Your Fault.

Democracy Always Makes For Materialism, Because The Only Kind Of Equality That You Can Guarantee To A Whole People Is, Broadly Speaking, Physical.

The Past Is Discredited Because It Is Not Modern. Not To Be Modern Is The Great Sin. So, Perhaps, It Is. But Every One Has, In His Day, Been Modern. And Surely Even Modernity Is A Poor Thing Beside Immortality. Since We Must All Die, Is It Not Perhaps Better To Be A Dead Lion Than A Living Dog?

[science] Has Challenged The Super-eminence Of Religion; It Has Turned All Philosophy Out Of Doors Except That Which Clings To Its Skirts; It Has Thrown Contempt On All Learning That Does Not Depend On It; And It Has Bribed The Skeptics By Giving Us Immense Material Comforts.