Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.