It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.