... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.