The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
War is like love, it always finds a way.
There are a few things that'll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they've been used several times, they no longer work.
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.