These Are Great Days.

After A Time, Civil Servants Tend To Become No Longer Servants And No Longer Civil.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling Ones Pulse And Taking Ones Temperature. I See That A Speaker At The Week-end Said That This Was A Time When Leaders Should Keep Their Ears To The Ground. All I Can Say Is That The British Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To Leaders Who Are Detected In That Somewhat Ungainly Posture.

We Shall Draw From The Heart Of Suffering Itself The Means Of Inspiration And Survival.

I Am Reminded Of The Professor Who, In His Declining Hours, Was Asked By His Devoted Pupils For His Final Counsel. He Replied, 'verify Your Quotations.

Certainly The Prolonged Education Indispensable To The Progress Of Society Is Not Natural To Mankind.