Those lovers scorn, whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
Sir P. Sidney.
“Do they call ungratefulness a virtue?”
Quixotism, or Utopianism: that is another of the devil’s pet words. I believe the quiet admission which we are all of us so ready to make, that, because things have long been wrong, it is impossible they should ever be right, is one of the most fatal sources of misery and crime from which this world suffers. Whenever you hear a man dissuading you from attempting to do well, on the ground that perfection is “Utopian,” beware of that man. Cast the word out of your dictionary altogether.
John Ruskin (Lectures on Architecture and Painting).
Two angels guide
The path of man, both aged and yet young,