Society always consists, in greatest part, of 5 young and foolish persons. Emerson.
Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative. Emerson.
Society develops wit, but contemplation alone forms genius. Mme. de Staël.
Society does not in any age prevent a man from being what he can be. Carlyle.
Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order. Emerson.
Society does not love its unmaskers. Emerson. 10
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Emerson.
Society has always a destructive influence upon an artist:—by its sympathy with his meanest powers; secondly, by its chilling want of understanding of his greatest; and, thirdly, by its vain occupation of his time and thoughts. Ruskin.
Society has always under one or the other figure two authentic revelations, of a God and of a devil. Carlyle.
Society has only one law, and that is custom. Hamerton.