When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.