France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will... always prefer are the most prosaic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's s...peech only as a foreign language, or as a lie.... Children have been treated ... as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stick ...out above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »