It's hard to do both at the same time.

The Germans are the only people who have done both at the same time; and even they didn't get their navy big enough for their needs.
When the infernal thing's over--that'll be a glad day; and the European world won't really know what it has cost in men and money and loss of standards till it is over....
Affectionately, W.H.P.
_To Walter H.Page, Jr._[32].
London, Christmas, 1915.
SIR: For your first Christmas, I have the honour to send you my most affectionate greetings; and in wishing you all good health, I take the liberty humbly to indicate some of the favours of fortune that I am pleased to think I enjoy in common with you.
_First_--I hear with pleasure that you are quite well content with yourself--not because of a reasoned conviction of your own worth, which would be mere vanity and unworthy of you, but by reason of a philosophical disposition.

It is too early for you to bother over problems of self-improvement--as for me it is too late; wherefore we are alike in the calm of our self-content.

What others may think or say about us is a subject of the smallest concern to us.
Therefore they generally speak well of us; for there is little satisfaction in speaking ill of men who care nothing for your opinion of them.

Then, too, we are content to be where we happen to be--a fact that we did not order in the beginning and need not now concern ourselves about.