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"Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?" – Henry Fielding, "The History of Tom Jones" (1749).
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." – Benjamin Disraeli, in "Coningsby, or the New Generation" (1844).
"Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them." – John Dewey, Democracy and Education, Section 13: The Nature of Method, Method as General and as Individual (1916).