Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

Without work men are utterly undone

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.