Fortunately For Mankind The Brain

I Always Try To Suit My Clothes To My Company. It Is The Only Way To Be Inconspicuous.

Civilisation Is A Conspiracy.

To Live For A Time Close To Great Minds Is The Best Kind Of Education.

I Would Have Been Content With Any Job However Thankless, In Any Quarter However Remote, If I Had A Chance Of Making A Corner Of The Desert Blossom And The Solitary Place Glad.

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.