We Forget That Socrates Was Famed For

No Man Is Uninteresting When His Hat Is Blown Off And He Has To Scuttle After It Down The Street.

It Is The Custom When Praising A Russian Writer To Do So At The Expense Of All Other Russian Writers.

There Are Two Sorts Of Curiosity - The Momentary And The Permanent. The Momentary Is Concerned With The Odd Appearance On The Surface Of Things. The Permanent Is Attracted By The Amazing And Consecutive Life That Flows On Beneath The Surface Of Things.

There Is Nothing In Which The Birds Differ More From Man Than The Way In Which They Can Build And Yet Leave A Landscape As It Was Before.

Swinburne Was An Absurd Character. He Was A Bird Of Showy Strut And Plumage. One Could Not But Admire His Glorious Feathers; But, As Soon As He Began To Moult ... One Saw How Very Little Body There Was Underneath.