He wishes to be certain.

He will fight as hard as any man, but intelligently, knowing that it will be a fight to the last day of his life.

He is perhaps more careful to last than to win--an ecclesiastical Jellicoe rather than a Beatty.

Nor, I think, must one take the view of the critic that he has never stuck to the main point.

Every step in his career, as I see it, has been towards opportunity--the riskless opportunity of greater service and freer movement.
I regard him as a man whose full worth will never be known till he is overtaken by a crisis.