“Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. ("Dayspring Mishandled")”

“When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue.The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.”

“God help us for we knew the worst too young.”

“TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,For they were young, and the Thames was oldAnd this is the tale that River told:”

“You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved.”

“At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.”

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”