There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
William McFeeA young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
William McFeeIt may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.
William McFeeTerrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
William McFee