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

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

Writing a book is an adventure.

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.]

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.