Racundra's First Cruise (Chapter 1), 1923

Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not t…

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.