In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other...
The most positive men are the most credulous.
A truer image of the world I think is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.