The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours. But less talent was wasted. - T. S. Eliot

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Let these words answer For what is done, not to be done again May the judgement not be too heavy upon us