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

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

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

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.