Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. – Vita Sackville-West
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. – Vita Sackville-West

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. – Vita Sackville-West
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. – Vita Sackville-West
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. – Vita Sackville-West
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. – Vita Sackville-West
It should be a pleasure to the appreciative reader, while recognizing their beauty, to cull these flowers of thought for the benefit of those who, less fortunate than himself, have not the time to indulge in literary pleasures. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech