Gareth Reeves

“To describe adequately is the high power & one of the highest enjoyments of man.
She was beautiful and he fell in love with her. The thing has happened to millions, yet how few can tell the story. Try some of them, set them at the painting; each knows it all & can communicate nothing. Then comes Shakspeare [sic], & tells it point for point as it befel [sic], or better; and now we have two things, love & literature.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1848–1851 (Volume XI)

“Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony.”
― Thomas de Quincey

“We may scale cliffs; but to tramp forever in the mud is another thing.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Louis Lambert

“What a signal convenience is fame. Do we read all authors to grope our way to the best? No, but the world selects for us the best, and we select from these our best.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson