“If we watch ourselves honestly, we shall often find that we have beguun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.”
(Wilfred Trotter, 1872 – 1939)
John Lentell
August 28th, 1968
Thursday’s Piece
“To the spirit that did embrace my spirit. To the heart that did pour out its secrets into my heart…..”
(Dedication of a book by Kahlil Gibran)
John Lentell
August 27th, 1968
Wednesday’s Piece
From the ‘Cynic’s Dictionary’ (not necessarily a view I share!)
“Woman’s love is measured less by what she gives
than by what she forgives.”
John Lentell
August 26th, 1968
Tuesday’s Piece
Monday’s Piece
“To wake at dawn with a winged heart…..”
(Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931, “The Prophet” – writing of love)
John Lentell
August 23rd, 1968
Sunday’s Piece
“What sort of doctor is he?
Oh, well, I don’t know very much about his ability;
but he’s got a very good bedside manner!”
(Punch)
John Lentell
August 23rd, 1968
Saturday’s Piece
“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
Friday’s Piece
“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
Thursday’s Piece
“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
Wednesday’s Piece
“REPUTATION” – What the world thinks about us; character is what our wives know about us!
John Lentell
August 19th, 1968
Tuesday’s Piece
“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
Monday’s Piece
“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
Sunday’s P.S.
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
Sunday’s Piece
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.”
(Thomas Malthus, 1766 – 1834)
John Lentell
August 16th, 1968
Saturday’s Piece
“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
Friday’s Piece
“He, too, had tears for all souls in trouble,
Here, and in hell.”
(James Clarence Mangan, 1803-1849)
John Lentell
Augsut 14th, 1968
Thursday’s Piece
“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
Wednesday’s Piece
“My opinion is, that power should be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.”
(Sir William Jones, 1746-1794)
John Lentell
Augsut 12th, 1968
Tuesday’s Piece
“Oh Happiness! our being’s end and aim,
Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! whate’er thy name,
That something still which prompts th’ eternal sigh,
For which we bear to live, or dare to die.”
(Alexander Pope, 1688-1744)
John Lentell
August 11th, 1968
Monday’s Piece
“So many men, so many opinions: his own a law to each.”
(Terence, 184-159 BC)
John Lentell
August 9th, 1968
Lentell Soup 