He was either peremptory and provocative, like a drill-sergeant, or so obviously diplomatic that any fool would have been put on his guard.
That is the weakness of the German.

He has no gift for laying himself alongside different types of men.

He is such a hard-shell being that he cannot put out feelers to his kind.

He may have plenty of brains, as Stumm had, but he has the poorest notion of psychology of any of God's creatures.

In Germany only the Jew can get outside himself, and that is why, if you look into the matter, you will find that the Jew is at the back of most German enterprises.
After midday we stopped at a station for luncheon.