I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.

I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.