There nearly always is a method in madness. - G. K. Chesterton

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new.

One of the actual and certain consequences of the idea that all men are equal is immediately to produce very great men.