In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. - Havelock Ellis

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.