A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.