"If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it lo… - G. K. Chesterton

Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung;
The world was very old indeed when you and I were young.

It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.