Sascha Schneider, Ein Wiedersehen, c.1900

“If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.”
— Lecrae

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Albert Ritzberger - Junges Mädchen am Bach, 1906

Mount Aetna from Taormina
Thomas Cole, 1844.