Sad truths

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves, -- George Santayana

Odorous Cedar

The Lady of Shallot, by John William Waterhouse

O for a chamber in an eastern tower
Spacious and empty, roofed in odorous cedar;
A window to the ocean, lest of the stormy world
Too deep seclusion make me forgetful.

George Santayana