Let the maiden, with erect soul, walk serenely on her way, accept the hint of each new experience, search in turn all the objects ...that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and charm of her new-born being, which is the kindling of a new dawn in the recesses of space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,... the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Custom calls me to't. What custom wills, in all things should we do't,... The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to o'erpeer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »