Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.