It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.