... no other railroad station in the world manages so mysteriously to cloak with compassion the anguish of departure and the dubio...us ecstasies of return and arrival. Any waiting room in the world is filled with all this, and I have sat in many of them and accepted it, and I know from deliberate acquaintance that the whole human experience is more bearable at the Gare de Lyon in Paris than anywhere else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bert, the big-foot, sung by Villon, Cassandra, Ronsard found in Lyon.... Queens of Sheba, Meath, and Connaught, Coifed with crown, or gaudy bonnet;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them... dead to the quality of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, "Know thyself," and too often leads to a self-estimate which wil...l subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »