Might was the measure of right.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

Might was the measure of right.