Scenery can be a violent stimulant.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.