That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?