Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal processโโwhich is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
Lytton StracheyThe old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
Lytton Strachey