Things People Do Without Being Told

Exist Between People

is, along with our bodies, in perpetual flux.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is, despite the many pretexts we may give to it, often caused only by interest and vanity.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 can no more keep its youth than can a man.

The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 grows faint not because other people are dead, but because we ourselves are dying.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

 makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

is the sudden endearment that a wife shows her husband when she wants a new fur coat.

Affection is the broadest basis of good in life.