There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.
When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.
No span of steel will tolerate. . . neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.