Let me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards

Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

The blood is life... and it shall be mine!

It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)