To Make The Most Of

I Have Always Been A Grumbler. I Am Designed For The Part - Sagging Face, Weighty Underlip, Rumbling, Resonant Voice. Money Couldn't Buy A Better Grumbling Outfit.

Our Dourest Parsons, Who Followed The Nonconformist Fashion Of Long Extemporary Prayers, Always Seemed To Me To Be Bent On Bullying God.

The World We Know At Present Is In No Fit State To Take Over The Dreariest Little Meteor ... If We Have The Courage And Patience, The Energy And Skill, To Take Us Voyaging To Other Planets, Then Let Us Use Some Of These To Tidy Up And Civilize This Earth. One World At A Time, Please.

A Lot Of Men Who Have Accepted - Or Had Imposed Upon Them In Boyhood - The Old English Public School Styles Of Careful Modesty In Speech, With Much Understatement, Have Behind Their Masks An Appalling And Impregnable Conceit Of Themselves.

I Have Always Been Delighted At The Prospect Of A New Day, A Fresh Try, One More Start, With Perhaps A Bit Of Magic Waiting Somewhere Behind The Morning.