In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. – Mary Wortley Montagu

We need — and should encourage and honour — not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. – Walter Moberly, The Crisis in the University

Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. – Aesop, “The Man and His Two Wives,” Fables