Patrick

“And there, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange, Paul sat as if he had taken life unfurnished, and the upholsterer were never coming.”
― Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

“If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin

“A good pursued too inflexibly may turn into a granite evil.”
― Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects