I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Not everybody has to sing the melody.
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease
What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?