It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.