'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.