There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.”
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.