As A Child I Found Railroad Stations

Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

If You Depart From Moral Absolutes, You Go Into A Bottomless Pit. Communism And Nazism Were Catastrophic Evils Which Both Derived From Moral Relativism. Their Differences Were Minor Compared To Their Similarities.

Conservation Of Energy. Never Stand Up When You Can Sit Down, And Never Sit Down When You Can Lie Down.

Euphemism Is A Human Device To Conceal The Horrors Of Reality.

As A Child I Found Railroad Stations Exciting, Mysterious, And Even Beautiful, As Indeed They Often Were.