For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

Every woman knows all about everything.

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.