Plato was right, but not quite right.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.