One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
This is the age of oddities let loose.
And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.
Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.