“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is”

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”

“Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.”

“What is done is done. What is past is past.""You call yesterday the past?""What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”