There are always men and women who prefer the triumph of evil, which is a thing they can forget, to prolonged resistance, which shatters their nerves. But the desire to escape an obligation, while very human, is not generally thought to be humanity’s noblest lesson. —Agnes Repplier, “Living in History”

@LeoWong “In Carthage no one is blamed, however he may have gained his wealth.” —Polybius, quoted by Plutarch, ibid.

@LeoWong It is not law or light we need. It is the power of effort and resistance. Ibid.

@LeoWong A single dead man and a million of dead men stand in the same relation to the living. If ever there was a time when it was needful to hold on to our sanity with all our might, that time is now. Ibid.

@LeoWong Is it possible that, when we die, we shall preach to one another; or is it the elusiveness of ghostly audiences which drives determined preachers to the ouija board? Ibid.