Patrick

“So many people make a name now-a-days, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”
― Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes

“If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming.”
― Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

“A good pursued too inflexibly may turn into a granite evil.”
― Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects