Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.