Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.