Sublime

Their ideal, like the ideal of all sensible people, was a chaotic and confused notion of goodness made up of English primroses and Greek statues, birds singing in April, and regiments being cut to pieces for a flag.

How’s tricks in the sticks,

IN contemplating some common object of the modern street, such as an omnibus or a lamp-post, it is sometimes well worth while to stop and think about why such common objects are regarded as commonplace.

An obvious instance is that of ordinary and happy marriage. A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is a fool, but a great fool.

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.

Happy is he and more than wise Who sees with wondering eyes and clean The world through all the grey disguise Of sleep and custom in between.

Toute cette agitation nocturne prenait un sens. L’agitation des grooms, des chauffeurs de taxis, du maître d’hôtel. Ils faisaient leur métier qui est, en fin de compte, de pousser devant lui ce champagne et cette fille lasse. Bernis regardait la vie par les coulisses où tout est métier. Où il n’y a ni vice, ni vertu, ni émotion trouble, mais un

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.