“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”
“Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!”
“There has never been nationhood without falsehood.”
“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.”
“For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?”
“you cannot learn without changing, or change without learning”