How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.