Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.
How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood