The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern Fact, the sad self, unrelenting identical that I fled from.

We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.