The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. - Robertson Davies

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. - Havelock Ellis

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - H. L. Mencken

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. - Ambrose Bierce

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell