Pessimism Is The One Ism Which Kills

Young Girls Passed Me With Romance Still In Their Eyes, And Others, A Little Older, With The Romance Dead.

The Sea Has Formed The English Character And The Essential England Is To Be Found In Those Who Follow It. From Blue Waters They Have Learned Mercifulness, And They Have Also Learned - In The Grimmest Of Schools - Precision And Resolution. The Sea Endures No Makeshifts. If A Thing Is Not Exactly Right It Will Be Vastly Wrong.

I Believe Everything Out Of The Common. The Only Thing To Distrust Is The Normal.

The Robe Of Flesh Wears Thin, And With The Years God Shines Through All Things.

[w]ithout Humour You Cannot Run A Sweetie-shop, Let Alone A Nation.