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

Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a quid of tobacco. It breaks the routine of the thing, and putting other considerations aside, I am an orderly man and don't like that. This is by the way.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?