The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

The reservist is twice the citizen.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose