“ Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. ”
What is reading but silent conversation.
~ Walter Savage Landor
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.
Cats ask plainly for what they want.
