--R.T.

Very true. I never chose the Deity. He chose Me.--W.

* * * * *

"Through the sadness of all things I hear the crooning of the Eternal
Mother."--R.T.

Sometimes, too, I hear the groaning of the Unforgettable
Grandfather.--W.

* * * * *

"Life has become richer by the love that has been lost."--R.T.

I wish I could feel this about America.--W.

* * * * *

"'Who draws me forward like fate?' 'The Myself striding on my
back.'"--R.T.

That cannot be right. I always said I didn't want this War.--W.

* * * * *

"Wrong cannot afford defeat, but Right can."--R.T.

"This ought to console poor old HINDENBURG."--W.

* * * * *

"Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world with which it makes
love to you."--R.T.

I must pass this on to TIRPITZ.--W.

* * * * *

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."--R.T.

Quite right. I always make a point of acknowledging the assistance of
my Partner.--W.

* * * * *

"I shall stake all I have and when I lose my last penny I shall
stake myself, and then I think I shall have won through my utter
defeat."--R.T.

I don't think.--W.

* * * * *

"The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal."--R.T.

All the same I could do with some more big guns.--W.

* * * * *

"The Spring with its leaves and flowers has come into my
body."--R.T.

I dislike all Spring offensives.--W.

* * * * *

"Let me not look for allies on life's battlefield, but to my own
strength."--R.T.

I wonder where Austria would have been by now if she had taken this
attitude.--W.

* * * * *

"Wayside grass, love the star, then your dreams will come out in
flowers."--R.T.

That reminds me that I must write and thank TINO for his letter
enclosing a bunch of edelweiss.--W.

* * * * *

"My heart has spread its sails for the shadowy island of
Anywhere."--R.T.

Personally I should be content with the solid island of Great
Britain.--W.

* * * * *

"Woman, when you move about in your household service your limbs sing
like a hill stream among its pebbles