K.C.

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain—which taste cannot tolerate—which ridicule will seize.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Little could he know that Madison would be fatigued and often on the verge of death for another 64 years.”
― Kevin R.C. Gutzman, James Madison and the Making of America