Sunday, December 25, 2022

Visions Of Eighteen

From a letter by Thomas Carlyle to Baillie/Jane Welsh, letter 101, 2 September, 1824:

The visions of eighteen are beautiful as the path of Aurora; but transient and baseless as they are beautiful. A little while and the glories of the East are clean gone; and after all, what matters it so much whether one fell gust of tempest or the silent march of the Hours have chased them away?

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