It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Those who trust us educate us.