Society and the World

When we take people, thou wouldst say, merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.

Die Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm.

Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.

All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?

When constabulary duty’s to be done,

I’m very good at integral and differential calculus,

It is, it is a glorious thing

For he might have been a Roosian,

Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,

I always voted at my party’s call,

If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.

If you’re anxious for to shine in the high

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,

The House of Peers, throughout the war,

The Law is the true embodiment

Work is love made visible.

Are you a politician who says to himself: ‘I will use my country for my own benefit’? … Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner self: ‘I love to serve my country as a faithful servant.’

Are you a politician who says to himself: ‘I will use my country for my own benefit’? … Or are you a devoted patriot, who whispers in the ear of his inner self: ‘I love to serve my country as a faithful servant.’

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

If with me you’d fondly stray.