The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.