“The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.”

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

“Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.”

“There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.”

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”

“Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep for him.”

“No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.”