No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 4, bk. 1, ch. 4, 1838.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.