Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
To take the world as one finds it
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.