In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.