This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak.

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human ef…

I had been six years at sea, but had only seen Melbourne and Sydney, very good places, charming places in their way - but Bankok!

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, throug…

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.