Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

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

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.