Distracted From Distraction By Distraction

We Must Learn To Suffer More.

Why Should Men Love The Church? Why Should They Love Her Laws? She Tells Them Of Life And Death, And Of All That They Would Forget.

Nothing Pleases People More Than To Go On Thinking What They Have Always Thought, And At The Same Time Imagine That They Are Thinking Something New And Daring: It Combines The Advantage Of Security And The Delight Of Adventure.

There Is, It Seems To Us, At Best, Only A Limited Value In The Knowledge Derived From Experience.

I Grow Old … I Grow Old … I Shall Wear The Bottoms Of My Trousers Rolled.