The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment. - Hilaire Belloc

"What we call "the Reformation" was essentially the reaction of the barbaric, the ill-tutored and the isolated places external to the old and deep-rooted Roman civilization, against the influences of that civilization."

The Microbe is so very small
You cannot make him out at all,
But many sanguine people hope
To see him through a microscope.

Man may […] be master of his fate, but he has a precious poor servant. It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.