There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so w… — Henry Ellis

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

Henry EllisPsychologist · British · b. 1859

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A wise traveler never despises his own country. — William Hazlitt
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. — Henry Ellis
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. — Henry Ellis
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. — Henry Ellis