Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

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.

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.

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

As for the girl, since she is well favoured, she shall brew the king's beer, and be numbered amongst the king's wives-unless, indeed, he is pleased to give her to me.