Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action? - Maurice Maeterlinck

yet may it not be that these questions are idle, and we who are putting them to you mere childish dreamers, hedged round with error and doubt?

Je ne sais pas ce que je dis... Je ne sais pas ce que je sais... Je ne dit plus ce que je veux...

And all this, I repeat, occurred without any material necessity, from no other motive than a fine sense of honour and a magnificent surge of admiration and pity for a small foreign nation that was being unjustly martyred. We cannot repeat it too often: here, as in the case of the sacrifice which Belgium and England offered to the ideal of honour, is a new and unprecedented fact in history