Joseph Henry Shorthouse - When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and

When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.

- Joseph Henry Shorthouse

source: Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Ingelsant [by J.H. Shorthouse].”

topic: Fall, Party, Attachment