“I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots.After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.”

“Any man who says he can handle more than one woman at a time is either crazy or a liar.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

“«I love both her and them. I have come to understand that she is what they are. A woman accepts a man, expecting that he will change. A man takes a woman, expecting that she will never change. They are both disappointed. Yet within this very disappointment is the primal source of all new men and all new women»”

“Honour is what no man can give you, and none can take away. Honour is a man's gift to himself.”

“The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.”