Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.