Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
当没有人相信你时,你必须相信自己。
Someone asked me what happiness is; I replied, not pursuing unnecessary things.
The greatest stories are those that reveal the complexity of human nature.