Think about it: If you rip a hole in a net, there would actually be fewer holes than before...The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H.L. Mencken, American Journalist, satirist and author.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.
W. Somerset Maugham, English novelist and playwright.