Forester, C. S. The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters) (1938 ( Read more... )

Forester, C. S. Hornblower and the "Hotspur" (1962 ( Read more... )

Forester, C. S. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950 ( Read more... )

There's the whole world at your feet. And who gets to see it but the birds, the stars and the chimney sweeps?

Mary Poppins (1964).

Graves, Robert. Love Respelt (1966 ( Read more... )

He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.

Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

One function of this Romantic School, though not the most important, is to make an immediate literary profit out of all accessible books of learning. It was a quick-witted school, and knew how to turn quotations and allusions. Much of its art, like the art of the Euphues, is bestowed on making pedantry look attractive.

W. P. Ker, Epic and Romance ( Read more... )

The economic problem, the struggle for subsistence, always has been hitherto the primary, most pressing problem of the human race. If the economic problem is solved, mankind will be deprived of its traditional purpose.

John Maynard Keynes, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" (1930)

"If thy hands are busy, the time will pass more quickly. Dost thou like to whittle?"

"Of course," answered Robin. "Who does not? But I have naught to whittle."

Marguerite de Angeli, The Door through the Wall (1949).

"...she has it all,--Beauty, Money,...um...whatever else there is....”

Pynchon, Mason & Dixon (1998).