“Ever the undiscouraged, resolute, struggling soul of man ********* Ever the grappled mystery of all Earth’s ages old or new; ********* Ever the soul dissatisfied, curious, unconvinced at last; Struggling to-day the same—battling the same.” Walt Whitman.
Chapter X
THE REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT IN THE LATIN QUARTER OF TO-DAY
“Each Jack with his Jill.” Ben Jonson.
“What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What’s to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet-and-twenty; Youth’s a stuff will not endure.” Shakespeare.
“It once might have been, once only: We lodged in a street together, You, a sparrow on the house-top lonely, I, a lone she-bird of his feather.” Robert Browning.
“The rôle of a pretty woman is more serious than we think.”