“The Irish move to the sound of the guns like salmon to the sea”

“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”

“All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They:But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way,You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!”

“For the world is wondrous large,Seven seas from marge to marge,And it holds a vast of various kinds of man.And the wildest dreams of KewAre the facts of Khatmandu,And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban.MORAL: Judge not that ye be not judged.”

“He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot.”

“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”

“All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.”