“ The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some. D.A. Botta
“ Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times. Compton Gage
“ He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together: Compton Gage