Gareth Reeves

“The world more often rewards outward signs of merit than merit itself.”
― La Rochefoucaul

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

“Till we come to try to put our own thoughts upon paper, we can have no notion how broke and imperfect they are, or find where the imperfection lies. Language is a scheme of machinery of so subtle a kind, that it is only by long habits that we can learn to conduct it in a masterly manner, or to the best purposes.”
― William Godwin

“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)