Where there are no tigers, the Lalla (scribe) becomes a shikaree.

The rucksack of a summer mountain leader should contain adequate kit for not only himself, but a few extra essentials for group use.

Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.

He that eats nothing but a red herring a-day shall ne'er be broiled for the devil's rasher: a pilcher, signor, a surdiny, an olive, that I may be a philosopher first, and immortal after.