All sorrow raises us above the civic Ceremonial-law, and makes the Prosaist a Psalmist; in sorrow alone have women courage to front opinion.
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Of course Meredith can do it, and so could Shakespeare; but with all my romance, I am a realist and a Prosaist, and a most fanatical lover of plain physical sensations plainly and expressly rendered; hence my perils.
"Vailima-Letters"
Stevenson, Robert Louis