I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.

As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.