That bread cast upon the waters—“‘dough ’ put out at usance,” as Joseph Jefferson used to phrase it—shall return after many days has been I dare say discovered by most persons who have perpetrated acts of kindness, conscious or unconscious.
Watterson reflects on the idea that acts of kindness will eventually be repaid, a sentiment that resonates with many.
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Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.
We should say to Europe: “Shinny on your own side of the water and we will shinny on our side.” It may be that Napoleon’s opinion will come true that ultimately Europe will be “all Cossack or all republican.” Part of it has come true…
Religion’s the only game whar you can’t lose.
But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment—gush and gammon—in the proposed League of Nations.
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