All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.
People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it
As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.
A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.