Excerpt from Rome and Pompeii: Archaeologial Rambles
I have often heard it said that it is dangerous to return after long absence to persons and places one has much loved. We seldom find them again as we remember to have seen them. The charm flies with years, tastes and ideas change, the faculty of admiring wanes; there is a danger of our remaining unmoved before what transported us in our youth, and, it may be, that instead of the pleasure we sought, only a disappointment awaits us. This disenchantment is the more fatal in that it usually spreads from the present to the past. Do what we will, it ends by imparting itself to our old impressions, and taints those stores of memories which should be faithfully treasured in our hearts for life's decline.
And this is the peril to which a traveller exposes himself who, not having seen Rome for many years, determines to go back there. How many things have happened in these few years!
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