How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

“In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of…”

“Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, …”

“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”

“Men are infinitely malleable.”