I may want to occupy an hour or two myself some day and they can help me.

If America starts in annexing islands she will need people to tell her how it is generally done and it is generally done, I find, by the English.

I may give up literature and start annexing things like Alexander and Caesar and Napoleon.

They say there will be another crisis in Cairo in a month or so.

If that be true I am all right and solid with both parties.