One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

The pioneer kills what he loves.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.