“An uncommon prudence is habitual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.Herman Melville
“Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.Herman Melville
“God, whom we see not, is: and God, who is not, we see: Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it, is dee. Algernon Charles Swinburne
“The writer in his work must be like God in his creation—invisible and all-powerful: he must be everywhere felt, but never seen.Gustave Flaubert