January 28, 2025

[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!

The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.

To think contrary to one’s era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness.