Having taken this journey in order to escape the inclemencies I had suffered on the fifty-first parallel, I had hoped, I must confess, to enter a true Goshen on the forty-eighth.

Otherwise I will have given the lie to my maxim that whether you work eight or twenty hours, the quantum of work that gets done on a normal day is the same.

The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.

Col. Why, they say she's one of the chief toasts in town. Lady S. Ay, when all the rest are out of it. Miss. Well; I wouldn't be as sick as she's proud for all the world. Lady A. She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth but, I warrant, cheese won't choke her. . . . Col. I can't pardon her for her rudeness to me.