To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

The 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.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.