He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

We must end war before war ends us.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.