I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.