Jerome Klapka Jerome

charters for his people's liberty

A bolder hand might have turned the game even at that point

Had it been a Richard there! the cup of liberty might have been

dashed from England's lips, and the taste of freedom held back for a hundred years.
But

great cornerstone in England's temple of liberty has, now we know, been firmly laid

The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter

You are no longer the slow, plodding, puny thing of clay, creeping tortuously upon the ground; you are a part of Nature

But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward

We asked this heavenly messenger (as we discovered him afterwards to be) if he knew of any lonely house, whose occupants were few and feeble (old ladies or paralysed gentlemen preferred), who could be easily frightened into giving up their beds for the night to three desperate men

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over