Somebody and Nobody

People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled somebodies, and their inverse nobodies - both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, ...

Let Us Do Something

Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind...

The Ingredients of Fulfilment

No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure an...