Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things.
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.