Of all the barbarous middle ages that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is - I really scarce know what, but when we hover between fool and sage and don't know justly what we would be at - a period something like a printed page b
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing "about around and underneath" man, except man himself.
Maidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Absence - that common cure of love.
For truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.