An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

You will travel in a Land of Marvels