There is nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

Frances Burney (1752-1840) English novelist, diarist, playwright [Fanny Burney, Madame d’Arblay]

Camilla, Book 3, ch. 12 (1796)