Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
John Cowper PowysIf by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.
John Cowper Powys