Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race will be a still more potent influence in the future of the world.

I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.