The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.