Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. – Henry Knox
People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. – George William Russell