If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.