There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. - Samuel Butler

We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble — no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.