A STUDY OF SONNETS

Men do mightily wrong themselves, when they refuse to be present in all ages.
Thomas Traherne, Centuries  I  85

To enjoy our full humanity we ought, so far as is possible, to contain within us potentially
at all times, and on occasion to actualize, all the modes of feeling and thinking through
which man has passed.
C.S. Lewis,  A Preface to Paradise Lost

A thing nobody believes in can never be proved too often.
Bernard Shaw: A Preface to Plays Unpleasant