[U]ntruths are thieves, robbing us of a birthright. — Elizabeth Bowen

Cicero, in invoking the law of heaven, invoked what was by nature of heaven: law — inviolable principle, better than the vacillating gods.

I am sick of the governessy attitude of our age, which is coming to be more genuinely presumptuous, nosier and more busybody than the Victorian.

[T]here is a flaw in civilization from the instant it has to admit fear.