August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.