He can take with him in his solitude the consolation that his only desire was for the best.

And notwithstanding all that is said and written about William II.

in these days, the beautiful words of the text may be applied to him: "Peace on earth to men of goodwill."[4] In his retirement from the world his good conscience will be his most precious possession.
Perhaps in the evening of his days William II.

will acknowledge that there is neither happiness nor unhappiness in mortal life, but only a difference in the strength to endure one's fate.
2 War was never in William II.'s programme.

I am not able to say where, in his own mind, he had fixed the limits he proposed for Germany and whether it was justifiable to reproach him with having gone too far in his ambition for the Fatherland.