What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.