Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on th...
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a...
Do you know Poole, he said, looking up, that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?
Ah, there, said Morgan, that comed of sp'iling Bibles.That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses, retorted the doctor.
A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved - the cloth laying for me in the dining room at home; and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murd...
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest
The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Dead men don't bite
As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter...
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of hi...
I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I can reasonably do all the good I can willingly and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For we are all so busy, and have so many far-off projects to realise, and castles in the fire to tur...
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
About as emotional as a bagpipe.
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.