“ Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved. Mary Renault
“ Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would have thought me a dreamer, and I had to plan alone. Mary Renault
“ It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. Mary Renault
“ There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare. Mary Renault
