The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
Richard Chenevix TrenchBest friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.
Richard Chenevix TrenchFor we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
Richard Chenevix Trench"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.
Richard Chenevix Trench