Nature will not be admired by proxy.

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!