We Shall Not Flag Nor Fail. We

If You Cannot Read All Your Books...fondle Them---peer Into Them, Let Them Fall Open Where They Will, Read From The First Sentence That Arrests The Eye, Set Them Back On The Shelves With Your Own Hands, Arrange Them On Your Own Plan So That You At Least Know Where They Are. Let Them Be Your Friends; Let Them, At Any Rate, Be Your Acquaintances.

Never Trust A Man Who Has Not A Single Redeeming Vice.

We Have A Very Daring And Skillful Opponent Against Us, And, May I Say Across The Havoc Of War, A Great General.

There Are Two Processes Which We Adopt Consciously Or Unconsciously When We Try To Prophesy. We Can Seek A Period In The Past Whose Conditions Resemble As Closely As Possible Those Of Our Day, And Presume That The Sequel To That Period Will, Save For Some Minor Alterations, Be Similar. Secondly, We Can Survey The General Course Of Development In Our Immediate Past, And Endeavor To Prolong It Into The Near Future. The First Is The Method The Historian; The Second That Of The Scientist. Only The Second Is Open To Us Now, And This Only In A Partial Sphere.

The One Who Cannot See That On Earth A Big Endeavor Is Taking Place, An Important Plan, On Which Realization We Are Allowed To Collaborate As Faithful Servants, Certainly Has To Be Blind.