Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.
John BuchanThere may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
John BuchanThe sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.
John Buchan