💬 Quotes

"Let us eat and drink and be merry; the dead have no appetite, and tomorrow we may belong to the shadows."

"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

"I could not fail myself and die on this particular day."

"Pain does not matter to a man."

"He is my brother. But I must kill him and keep strong enough to do it."

"The actual religion of all Anglo-India is being driven off the face of the earth, or rather out of the mouth of man, by rail, road, and telegraph."

"A man should, whatever happens, keep to his own caste, race, and breed. Let the white go to the white and the black to the black."

"Skulls and cross-bones limit her ideas; but she is none the less clever for that. She can take a man's heart out of his bosom, tear it into small pieces, and burn it before his eyes, with the most touching regret."

"Love isn't made in a minute—not in the North or the South, and least of all in the East. It is a slow-growing plant."

"Give him all the work you can put upon him, from sun-up to sundown, and if you set him safe inside a fence, he'll grow."

"A man should be indifferent to many things, but not to the quality of his sins."

"I'm tired of needing women. I'm tired of women needing me."

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"My generation is growing up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."

"I know myself, but that is all. And `--` oh, I'm romanticly disposed."

"In this strange world, made a hopeless riddle to him, he might have been a long while bemoaning his loss, but for the change—the change that came over his heart, before he knew its bearing."

"A man does not make his own blood, and it was his own judgment that had made him an actor in that scene."

"There is pity that rests on the moral injury done to by-standers by making them the accomplices of a solemn falsehood."