John Smith Phelps

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“Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl,
And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

“... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one’s notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one’s dearest readers.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)