The most profound effect of World War I on me ... was that it committed me to international affairs as the principal work of my li...fe. ...I have sometimes regretted that my avocation or chief hobby happened to be such a gloomy one. ...When I look at the world today ... I sometimes wonder whether [my efforts] were not nearly all in vain. Perhaps it would have been better if I had adopted as my chief hobby the cultivation of chrysanthemums or the breeding of West Highland White Terriers or even, as did one of my friends, the collection of Japanese swordguards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee,... Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, in... Truro.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had thought to observe on this carry when we crossed the dividing line between the Penobscot and St. John, but as my feet had ha...rdly been out of water the whole distance, and it was all level and stagnant, I began to despair of finding it. I remembered hearing a good deal about the "highlands" dividing the waters of the Penobscot from those of the St. John, as well as the St. Lawrence, at the time of the northeast boundary dispute.... I thought that if the commissioners themselves, and the King of Holland with them, had spent a few days here, with their packs upon their backs, looking for that "highland," they would have had an interesting time, and perhaps it would have modified their views of the question somewhat. The King of Holland would have been in his element.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kissed sae fondly;... And closed for ay, the sparkling glance That dwalt on me sae kindly; And moldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »