"An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals."

"This railway is the most absurd scheme that ever entered into the head of a man to conceive. Mr. Stephenson never had…"

"I apprehend that you may put a leading question to an unwilling witness on the examination in chief at the discretion…"

"Human nature is imperfect."

"The Courts of law are not provided at the public expense, and were not intended by those who so provided them, for th…"

"It is the privilege of a trader in a free country, in all matters not contrary to law, to regulate his own mode of ca…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"