“And o'er them the lighthouse looked lovely as hope,—
That star of life's tremulous ocean.”
Paul Moon James (1780–1854) British poet and banker
The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.”
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