And yet — you are not to confuse the thistle with the cedar that is in Lebanon ; nor to forget — if the spinous nature of it become too cruel to provoke and offend — the parable of Joash to Amaziah, and its fulfilment : There passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

My dear Tom, you are going to undertake an Impossibility. If you knew my Father, you would never think of obtaining his Consent.

Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it’s like it’s a game played on the skin of a void and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.

There's a cheap and cheerful coffee shop on the next street which sells quite a good selection of sandwiches.