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

The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".