Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. The smiler with the knife under the cloak. Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checked by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much. He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
The history of na art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be betterde by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. To one who has been long in sity pent, 'Tis very serry to look into the fair And open face of heaven.