"Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferio…"

"BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN."

"They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home."

"When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time."

"Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,"

"Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall."

"A pigeon a day keeps the natives away"

"A lot of things were lucky," said Daddy, and suddenly, while they were walking along, brought his hand down on John's…"

"She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in…"

"Dorothea blew out her candle and settled down in the middle of the big spare room bed. An owl called in the woods. 'N…"