Lord, what fools these mortals be! A Midsummer Night's Dream 

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Never Give In!

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. East Of Eden

Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind. Book IV