Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.