If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

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!