The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!
The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.