Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'