I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy. - G. K. Chesterton

There is truth in every ancient fable, and there is here even something of it in the fancy that finds the symbol of the Republic in the bird that bore the bolts of Jove. Owls and bats may wander where they will in darkness, and for them as for the sceptics the universe may have no centre; kites and vultures may linger as they like over carrion, and for them as for the plutocrats existence may have no origin and no end; but it was far back in the land of legends, where instincts find their true images, that the cry went forth that freedom is an eagle, whose glory is gazing at the sun.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.