David

“But is it coincidence? Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

“the reader is hurried out of himself by the force of the poet’s imagination, and turns in one place to a hearer, in another to a spectator.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“To form correct views of individuals we must regard them as forming parts of a great whole — we must measure them by their relation to the mass of beings by whom they are surrounded, and, in contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us, we must rather consider the general bearing of the whole narrative, than the respective probability of its details.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often “came down” handsomely, and Scrooge never did.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol