"No good ever came of merely flattering one's nation: a man flatters the land he fears, but not the land he loves."

No good ever came of merely flattering one's nation: a man flatters the land he fears, but not the land he loves.

-September 25, 1915, Illustrated London News, "The English Spirit and the Flea"

The Apostle and the Wild Ducks (collection of essays published posthumously in 1975)