The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.