There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.