A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.