Love ever flows downward. [ Quoted by Hare ]

It is looking downward that makes one dizzy. [ Robert Browning ]

Those dreams, that on the silent night intrude,
And with false flitting shades our minds delude,
Jove never sends us downward from the skies;
Nor can they from infernal mansions rise;
But are all mere productions of the brain,
And fools consult interpreters in vain. [ Swift ]

The wheel of time rolls downward through various changes. [ Silius Italicus ]

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep pace in their downward tendency. [ Goethe ]

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast [ Coleridge ]

If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road. [ Thoreau ]