Truth is so often disconcerting.
A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.
Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.
...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.
Only he who is without anything is without enemies.
It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.