We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others. – Frederick W. Faber

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St