What we know of other peoples only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Jones Very is gone into the multitude as solitary as Jesus. In dismissing him, I seem to have discharged an arrow into the heart of Society. Wherever that young enthusiast goes, he will astonish and disconcert men by dividing for them the cloud that covers the gulf in man. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

The present ideal is the worship of the gents who sing like canaries and the women who bellow like lions. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin