My Books, At Any Rate, Deserved To

In The Course Of Writing One Historical Book Or Another, It Has Happened That I Could Hardly Restrain Myself From Simply Copying Entire Documents. Indeed, I Sometimes Sank Down Among The Documents And Said To Myself, I Can't Improve On These.

But The Main Things About A Man Are His Eyes And His Feet. He Should Be Able To See The World And Go After It.

I Read Like The Flame Reads The Wood.

That's How The Germans Are.... The Aristocrats At The Top Hard As Glass, Cold As Ice, Servants Of The King, The Working Masses Willing, Pliable, Sentimental, Susceptible To Brutality, The Middle Class Educated And Cowardly To The Point Of Servility.

My Books, At Any Rate, Deserved To Be Burned.