I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

Money is a most important thing in the world.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.