You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Nathaniel HawthorneWhen scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
Nathaniel HawthorneCannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?
Nathaniel Hawthorne