Brandon

“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“The torture allotted to the Danaids in the classical underworld, that of attempting to fill sieves with water, is the symbol not of one vice, but of all vices. It is the very mark of a perverse desire that it seeks what is not to be had.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Inner Ring

“hell is full of good wishes and desires.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“Ideal circumstance is the Paradise of Fools.”
― Alexander B. Grosart Joshuah Sylvester, The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester. Two Volumes