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.

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

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

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 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.

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

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.