Very likely education does not make very much difference.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.