If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.