When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks. When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. Where is the Life we have lost in living? You are the music while the music lasts. What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome |