“ States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay. ”
What is reading but silent conversation.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
