People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Logan Pearsall SmithGrowing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.
Logan Pearsall SmithThe mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith