"The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakespeare w…"

"No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churc…"

"In 1918 he retired as an officer of the , and in the following year was elected of the . Here he officiated for the r…"

"The ' shipped 15,000 brown biscuit and 5,000 white, that is, , i.e. crackers; also or half-cooked bacon, as it came f…"

"Of course it goes without saying that when a whale was sighted, the whalemen were in for a hard job, a harder job tha…"

"The "Stars and Stripes" now float over a vast continent, extending from the Atlantic to the Great Ocean, and from the…"

"After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke."

"A man can stand up to anything with a good weapon in his hands. Without it, he's but a dumb beast."

"Human relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for instance. It might ripen into something better …"

"On rocky islands gulls woke."