As plainly as if it had been the top line on the oculist's chart I could see what the future held for Bertram.

I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.

Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought …

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their ef…

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

We'll look back and wonder who were these barbarous people, just like we look back at those who supported bull-baiting