William Glazzard viewed the world from a standpoint of philosophic calm; he expected so little of men in general, that disappointment or vexation could rarely befall him.
"These people," he observed, "think themselves pillars of society, and the best of the joke is, that they really _are_ what they imagine.
Without tolerably honest fools, we should fare badly at the hands of those who hate neither wits nor honesty.

Let us encourage them, by all means.

I see no dawn as yet of the millennium of brains.".