Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. "My dear uncle-" I began. "Nor you either," he added.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.

Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.