I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object my eyes greet in the morning, and the last at night.
Henry JamesPeople can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
Henry JamesOne can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry James