God made food; the devil the cooks.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.