Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.