Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Every one who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.