Quotations

Walter Savage Landor:

'The very beautiful rarely love at all. Those precious images are placed above the reach of the Passions. Time alone is permitted to efface them ; Time, the father of the Gods, and even their consumer.'

Goethe in a letter to Charlotte von Stein (December 4, 1777), translated by William Cooper:

'How this lonesome journey has taught me to love the class of men that is called the lower, which, however, in the eyes of God is certainly the highest! Here one finds all virtues united: self-restraint, contentment, straightforwardness, fidelity, joy over most humble possessions, innocence, patience...'

Pat Buchanan: