In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

This blessed gift of smoking!

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"