Humour In Its Highest Reach Mingles With

I Owe A Lot To My Teachers And Mean To Pay Them Back Some Day.

As For Politics, Well, It All Seemed Reasonable Enough. When The Conservatives Got In Anywhere, [judge] Pepperleigh Laughed And Enjoyed It, Simply Because It Does One Good To See A Straight, Fine, Honest Fight Where The Best Man Wins. When A Liberal Got In, It Made Him Mad, And He Said So,-not, Mind You; From Any Political Bias, For His Office Forbid It,-but Simply Because One Can't Bear To See The Country Go Absolutely To The Devil.

Modern Critics, Who Refuse To Let A Plain Thing Alone, Have Now Started A Theory That Cervantes's Work Is A Vast Piece Of "symbolism." If So, Cervantes Didn't Know It Himself And Nobody Thought Of It For Three Hundred Years. He Meant It As A Satire Upon The Silly Romances Of Chivalry.

The Classics Are Only Primitive Literature. They Belong To The Same Class As Primitive Machinery And Primitive Music And Primitive Medicine.

All Our Yesterdays, It Is True, Have Only Lighted Fools The Way To Dusty Death. But We Need At Least The Dates Of The Yesterdays And The List Of The Fools.