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

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.

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

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.