“All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, 'Whatever is, is right.”— Alexander Pope, gutenberg.org
“Wherefore we must have these mutinies and discords that are grown amongst us redressed, for by the life of God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it. Here is such controversy between the sailors and gentlemen, and such stomaching between the gentlemen and sailors, it doth make me mad to…”— Francis Drake, amazon.com
“To accept the insanity of our political discourse and the violence in our world as normal is to declare our own insanity.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com