How many, as Rochefoucauld says, would be ignorant of love if they had never read novels!
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But to this beautiful island of limestone in the heart of their oldest homelands the Goths gave at any rate a name; and such is the charm and interest of her ancient capital that one might well suppose the term Gothic Architecture to have been given here in admiration instead of being a term of contempt and reproach bestowed by a generation that could see no beauty save in the horizontal lines of Greek temples.
— from Capitals of the Northlands: Tales of Ten Cities by Ian C. Hannah