I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

A young mistress is better than an old master.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

The past is but the past of a beginning.