DECEMBER 8th
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
'The Man who was Thursday.'
DECEMBER 9th
There was a time when you and I and all of us were all very close to God; so that even now the colour of a pebble (or a paint), the smell of a flower (or a firework) comes to our hearts with a kind of authority and certainty; as if they were fragments of a muddled message, or features of a forgotten face. To pour that fiery simplicity upon the whole of life is the only real aim of education; and closest to the child comes the woman—she understands.
'What's Wrong with the World.'
DECEMBER 10th
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame or money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.