In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
Celia GreenPeople have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
Celia GreenPhysics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.
Celia GreenThe charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.
Celia Green