Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but...
I have a bit of a rebellious nature.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.