Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.