But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time - W. H. Auden

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushman would very soon go mad.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.