Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.