it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
Freya StarkFew are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Freya StarkThe camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.
Freya Stark