The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone. the Revolt of the Masses

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Lady Windermere's Fan

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day. Book VIII

“And the man who seeks salvation in change of place like a migrating bird would find nothing anywhere, for all the world is alike to him.” The Duel