[…]What is there for me in it? Not a shilling. What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?

Camden motive power depot has been much criticised for its emission of smoke in a residential neighbourhood and its complete dieselisation is rapidly taking place.

Scientists considered collectively are remarkably single-minded in their views about what is important and what is not. If a graduate student gives a seminar and no one comes or no one asks a question, it is very sad, but not so sad as the question gallantly put by a senior or a colleague that betrays that he hasn't listened to a word. But it is a warning sign, a shot across the bows.

[…]O, she is / Ten times more gentle than her father's crabb'd, / And he's composed of harshness.