As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.