"Society at large is the main evidence of civilization, and all decent folk are members of it.

Human society is a living organism, working mechanically, like any other organism.

In those days Creole society was a ship, in which the fair sex were all passengers and the ruder sex the crew.

It may be well, also, that the doctrine of Social Fate should be preached until all are made to see that Society is a fact,that it is generative,that personal development cannot go on but by its mediation,that the chain of spiritual interdependence cannot be broken, and that in proportion as it is weakened every bosom becomes barren.

And to tell you the truth, having passed most of my life in white society, I did not feel that the advantages of that society would have ever paid me for the loss of my self-respect, by passing as white, when I knew that I was colored; when I knew that any society, however cultivated, wealthy or refined, would not be a social gain to me, if my color and not my character must be my passport of admission.

Society is no friend to women, Pearl.

Not to oppose that Society, would be the guiltiest treachery to our holy religion, which requires immediate and unconditional repentance of sin.

The work of restoration is being carried out by the Office of Works, and the Society of Antiquaries are, at their own expense, sifting every cubic inch of ground under those stones that are being re-erectedto the dismay of many of that bodyin beds of concrete!

Especially the women attracted my attention,I must admit, fastidious as I am, that our society is very choice.

The society of women remained a necessity of his life; and the only woman in town, always bright, always full of ideas, and always glad to see him (the main difficulty) was Mrs. Conyers.

Society is a group of families, not of individuals, and domestic life is the foundation, preparation, and pattern for social life, Comte praises the family, the connecting link between the individual and the species, as a school of unselfishness, and approves the strictness of the Catholic Church in regard to the indissolubility of the marriage relation.

All these societies were really law and order associations.

In the first place, the society was all things to all men.

She expected that her society and charms would be a compensation for all that he had lost; yea, more, enough to make him the most fortunate and happy of mortals.

And if their society should be unpleasing?if their habits, their mode of life, their persons, should become objects of antipathy to the misanthropic Selkirk, as it is but natural to fear?

Man's life to her is all one, tyrant or slave, friend or foe, wise or foolish, virtuous or vicious, holy or profane, so long as her imperative physical conditions of life, the mortal thing, are conformed to; society itself is not her care, nor civilization, nor anything that belongs to man above the brute.

"Society is indeed a contract," he says in a memorable passage, It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

The larger institutions were mainly supported by State and charitable organizations of which the Society of Friends and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society were the most important.

The empire indeed enjoyed quietude, and society was no longer rent by factions and parties.

Female society is a relaxation to me; you convert it into torture.

The young Earl did not go to many parties, and the society he cultivated was chiefly masculine; and as he neither played polo nor shot pigeons his masculine pursuits did not bring him in his sister's way.

The first Prohibition Society, of which we have record, was this Order of the Nazarites.

General society, as now carried on in England, is so insipid an affair, even to the persons who make it what it is, that it is kept up for any reason rather than the pleasure it affords.

The same is true with respect to any other virtue or excellence, the home, school, and church may unite in emphasizing the most wholesome discipline, but so long as society is a living, seething contradiction of this teaching, the instruction will fall upon deaf ears and be but as "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.

Mr. Falkland could only allege, that the state of his health and spirits was such, that he feared a residence at his house would be little agreeable to his kinsman; and Mr. Forester conceived that this was a disqualification which would always augment in proportion as it was tolerated, and hoped that his society, by inducing Mr. Falkland to suspend his habits of seclusion, would be the means of essential benefit.