Might be called the botanical Mecca of the English-speaking world

To one has seen the vast storehouses of utterly unknown material in the great jungle world below the , botanizing anywhere in the though fascinating is rather lacking in excitement ...

Never to have seen anything but the is to have lived on the fringe of the world.

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, …

I am the greatest landowner in the world.

[T]he past was supreme; the priest who cherished it lived in a realm of shadows, and for the contemporary world he had no vital meaning. Likewise in Babylon the same retrospective spirit was now the dominant characteristic of the reviving …