“For me, Bach is the greatest of preachers. His cantatas and passions tune the soul to a state in which we can grasp the truth and oneness of things, and rise above everything that is paltry, everything that divides us.”
(Charles M. Widor, 1844-1937)
John Lentell
Augsut 22nd, 1968
“There is as much healing power in a Beethoven sonata or a painting by Constable as in some excerpts from the Bible.”
(George Bernard Shaw, 1856 – 1950)
John Lentell
August 21st, 1968
“At times, in the silence of the night and in rare, lonely moments, I experience a sort of communion with myself with Something Great that is not myself.”
(H.G. Wells, 1866 – 1946)
John Lentell
August 20th, 1968
“REPUTATION” – What the world thinks about us; character is what our wives know about us!
John Lentell
August 19th, 1968
“If you please, ma’am, it was a very little one.”
(The nurse excusing her illegitimate baby.)
(Frederick Marryat, 1792 – 1848)
John Lentell
August 18th, 1968
“La última camisa de que se despojan les sabies es la soberbia.”
(The last shirt your wise man will abandon is pride.)
(Juan de Mariana, 1536 – 1624)
John Lentell
August 17th, 1968
The last 24 hours have for me been delightfully punctuated by splashes of colour round and about Salisbury and marred mostly by dirty dust from unsurfaced pavements. Above the pavement at Vivian & Watson in Gordon Av, I saw the most uplifting display of flowering plants. Let’s go to town on colour and get rid of the dust which is a menace to good health as much as Bilharzia. Positive thoughts for what they are worth!
John Lentell
August 16th, 1968
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.”
(Thomas Malthus, 1766 – 1834)
John Lentell
August 16th, 1968
“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”
(Horace Mann, 1796-1859)
John Lentell
August 15th, 1968
“He, too, had tears for all souls in trouble,
Here, and in hell.”
(James Clarence Mangan, 1803-1849)
John Lentell
Augsut 14th, 1968
“A hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.”
(Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784)
John Lentell
August 13th, 1968
Lentell Soup 