That Low Vice, Curiosity!

A Man Of Eighty Has Outlived Probably Three New Schools Of Painting, Two Of Architecture And Poetry And A Hundred In Dress.

I Should Like To Know Who Has Been Carried Off, Except Poor Dear Me - I Have Been More Ravished Myself Than Anybody Since The Trojan War.

For A Man To Become A Poet (witness Petrarch And Dante), He Must Be In Love, Or Miserable.

Who Then Will Explain The Explanation?

Adversity Is The First Path To Truth.