“A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke”
“That whiff of smoke was enough to transform my sithere-trembling terror into get-the-hell-out-of-here terror.”
“Persuasion is often more effectual than force.”
“Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment”
“he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.”
“Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?”