Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Great men always have dogs.

For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.