When a new book appears one should read an old one.
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.
Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.