Quotes with imbecility

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.