In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.