A biography for William Watsonhasn’t been written yet.
“Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.”
“Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.”
“Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.”
“Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.”
“The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.”
“We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.”