Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.