Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.
Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3181, Delphi Classics
