It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. – Robert Mallett, Apostilles, 1972

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. – Carl G. Jung

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self. – Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience,” translated from French by Charles Cotton