But one must take one's lot.
Lohengrin
He was a prig. In the bedroom scene with Elsa he should have said
that her question put him rather up a tree but that, as she wanted to
know who he was, he would tell her and would let the Holy Grail
slide.
Swells
People ask complainingly what swells have done, or do, for society
that they should be able to live without working. The good swell is
the creature towards which all nature has been groaning and
travailing together until now. He is an ideal. He shows what may be
done in the way of good breeding, health, looks, temper and fortune.
He realises men's dreams of themselves, at any rate vicariously. He
preaches the gospel of grace. The world is like a spoilt child, it
has this good thing given it at great expense and then says it is
useless!
Science and Religion
These are reconciled in amiable and sensible people but nowhere else.
Gentleman
If we are asked what is the most essential characteristic that
underlies this word, the word itself will guide us to gentleness, to
absence of such things as brow-beating, overbearing manners and fuss,
and generally to consideration for other people.
The Finest Men
I suppose an Italian peasant or a Breton, Norman or English
fisherman, is about the best thing nature does in the way of men--the
richer and the poorer being alike mistakes.
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