Words Worth Noting - April 12, 2021

“When asked by what means she had acquired so extraordinary an influence over the mind of the Queen Mother, she replied boldly that she exercised no other power over her than that which a strong mind can always exercise over the weak.”

Charles Mackay Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (she is the Maréchale d’Ancre, executed in Paris for witchcraft and other things in 1617)