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

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

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.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

As the dawn comes up like thunder.

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.