We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.