Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.
The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.