We who are here to-night are here as the servants of the guests of a great University, a University of knowledge, scholarship, and intellect. You do well to be proud of it. But I have wondered whether there may not be colleges and faculties of other experiences than yours, and whether even now in the far corners of the continents powers not yours are being brought to fruition. I have myself been something of a traveller, and every time I return to England I wonder whether the games of those children do not hold more intense life than the talk of your learned men-- a more intense passion for discovery, a greater power of exploration, new raptures, unknown paths of glorious knowledge; whether you may not yet sit at the feet of the natives of the Amazon or the Zambesi: whether the fakirs and the herdsmen, the witch-doctors may not enter the kingdom of man before you
Charles WilliamsOver the white curve he had looked into incredible space; abysses of intelligence lay beyond it.
Charles WilliamsI generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.
Charles WilliamsTag: books
I will not seek it," the other replied. "It has been opened once and it is enough. And you -- are you sure that man can conquer until he has been wholly defeated? Are you sure that he can find plenitude till he has known utter despair? You will not let him despair of himself, but it may be that only in such a complete despair he finds that which cannot despair and is something other than man.
Charles WilliamsAnd jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence.
Charles WilliamsPardon,Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially we don't and can't.
Charles WilliamsLove was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.
Charles WilliamsShe sat the sister of Arthur, the wife of Lot
four sons got by him, and one not.
Nothing was certain, but everything was safe - that was part of the mystery of Love.
Charles WilliamsTag: love
They're beautiful hands," he said; "though they've ruined the world, they're beautiful hands.
Charles WilliamsTag: beautiful-hands
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