"Bedford could be one of the rudest of men when he chose to exercise his wit at the expense of others. He happened to …"

"As salt as Lot's wife."

"The Governor was a little pink old gentleman; so soft in the skin that he seemed to be stuffed with moss."

"Pretty as a picture and poor as a crow."

"Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a v…"

"The Bible was second nature; and I had great interest in its gallery of bad men, beloved of the Lord. At least they s…"

"His moments of most sentimental recollection were when he thought of the beauty of the sausages he had manufactured."

"Half way to Burwood there was a butcher’s shop, run by a Mrs Macnamara. She was a tall woman of great strength, worki…"

"Politics in Australia, as in the rest of the world, are becoming duller and soberer, as the world itself becomes temp…"

"For we have here a beautiful land that none could e’er knock down, The brightest jewel that ever was known in dear ol…"