The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.