Writing is an adventure.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.