Jerome Klapka Jerome

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

Thus does unjust suspicion follow even the most blameless for, as the poet says, "Who shall escape calumny

grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them - the soft singing of the waters, the whisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind - should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not