A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - G. K. Chesterton

Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. a

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are — of immeasurable stature. That the trees are high and the grasses short is a mere accident of our own foot-rules and our own stature. But to the spirit which has stripped off for a moment its own idle temporal standards the grass is an everlasting forest, with dragons for denizens; the stones of the road are as incredible mountains piled one upon the other; the dandelions are like gigantic bonfires illuminating the lands around; and the heath-bells on their stalks are like planets hung in heaven each higher than the other.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities — and found no statues of Committees.