“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.” FirstsMadeHumanitySimpleInterestingMankindInspiredDetailsForestsGlancesStatuesExaminationLivelyCathedrals Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.” FirstsTwentiesSnowFirst LoveStatuesMatrimony Author:Walter Scott
“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.” TryingFirstsFactsFoundTakenImagineEuropePerformancesLondonNakedShockedStatuesUlyssesHawthorne Book:The Last Novel Source: The Last Novel