It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.