Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity

What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own— 'T is "love in Idleness".

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.

Sooth't were a pleasant life to lead, With nothing in the world to do But just to blow a shepherd's reed, The silent season thro' And just to drive a flock to feed,— Sheep—quiet, fond and few!

the "lightning of the mind." We feel an instantaneous kindness and reverence towards an author