If You Recognize Anyone It Does Not

It Is Arguable Whether The Human Race Have Been Gainers By The March Of Science Beyond The Steam Engine. Electricity Opens A Field Of Infinite Conveniences To Ever Greater Numbers, But They May Well Have To Pay Dearly For Them. But Anyhow In My Thought I Stop Short Of The Internal Combustion Engine Which Has Made The World So Much Smaller. Still More Must We Fear The Consequences Of Entrusting A Human Race So Little Different From Their Predecessors Of The So-called Barbarous Ages Such Awful Agencies As The Atomic Bomb. Give Me The Horse.

There Is No Purpose In Living Where There Is Nothing To Do.

It Is Not Given To Princes, Statesmen And Captains To Pierce The Mysteries Of The Future, And Even The Most Penetrating Gaze Reaches Only Conclusions Which, However Seemingly Vindicated At A Given Moment, Are Inexorably Effaced By Time.

We Shape Our Buildings; Thereafter They Shape Us.

The Most Dangerous Moment Of The War, And The One Which Caused Me The Greatest Alarm, Was When The Japanese Fleet Was Heading For Ceylon And The Naval Base There. The Capture Of Ceylon, The Consequent Control Of The Indian Ocean, And The Possibility At The Same Time Of A German Conquest Of Egypt Would Have Closed The Ring And The Future Would Have Been Black.