Paul Stapfer,
Causeries guernesiaises
(1869)
“ We judge ourselves by what we feel ourselves capable of doing and surely no great poet, no sublime composer, no glorious painter ever judged himself incapable of great things. Often has the world's admiration, the recognition of contemporaries come too late to soothe the yearning spirit of the noble thinker ; but did not some inner consciousness reveal to Homer, as he wandered old and blind from city to city, that a time would arrive when each would vie with each for the honour of being his birthplace ? ”
