“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.”

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”

“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big wh...”

“Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?”

“Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.”

“If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!”

“There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.”