Isabelle

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
― H.L. Mencken