Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.
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.
He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.