The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.