Whoever votes for an appropriation in order to secure for another man lucrative employment or a profitable contract; whoever gives or takes money for a vote; whoever increases or diminishes a tax with a view to the business interests, not of the country as a whole, but of a few interested parties; whoever accepts or bestows a public office on any grounds other than the efficiency of service which the office-holder is to render to the country; whoever evades his just taxes; whoever suffers bad men to be elected and bad measures to become laws through his own negligence to vote himself and to influence others to vote for better men and better measures, is guilty of treason.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
There's an elusive something in or behind it that evades one-the mystery that hides in all grandeur and beauty.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
"Possibly, though in which actual masterpiece just now evades my grasp.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc