I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”