And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World (November 1887)
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist..
Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.