J.F.C. Fuller

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

Paul Valéry

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

James Thurber

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

Frederick Rolfe

“Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties — French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time”. –Frederick Rolfe

Charles Reade

“The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble”. –Charles Reade

Matthew Arnold

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture”. –Matthew Arnold

Apuleius

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Francis Quarles

“Even such is man, whose glory lends His life a blaze or two, and ends”. –Francis Quarles

Novalis

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream”. –Novalis