We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion