Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.

I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.