The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.