The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
Whose life is it anyway?
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.