I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.

One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.

Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.

Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.