“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN”

“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe. In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end.”

“A pigeon a day keeps the natives away.”

“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.”

“Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,”

“What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.”

“The island had come to seem one of those places seen from the train that belong to a life in which we shall never take part.”