There May Be A Better Land Where

Contented, Unambitious People Are All Very Well In Their Way. They Form A Neat, Useful Background For Great Portraits To Be Painted Against, And They Make A Respectable, If Not Particularly Intelligent, Audience For The Active Spirits Of The Age To Play Before. I Have Not A Word To Say Against Contented People So Long As They Keep Quiet.

Among All Nations There Should Be Vast Temples Raised Where People Might Worship In Silence And Listen To It, For It Is The Voice Of God

Cassivelaunus Had Prepared The River For Caesar, By Planting It Full Of Stakes (and Had, No Doubt, Put Up A Notice-board).

They [dogs] Never Talk About Themselves But Listen To You While You Talk About Yourself, And Keep Up An Appearance Of Being Interested In The Conversation.

Being Poor Is A Mere Trifle. It Is Being Known To Be Poor That Is The Sting.