“[Blood upon killing Levasseur] ‘I think that cancels the articles between us,’ he said.”

“Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge.”

“Take your time, now,’ said Mr. Blood. ‘I never knew speed made by overhaste.”

“If Mr. Blood had condescended to debate the matter with these ladies, he might have urged that having had his fill of wandering and adventuring, he was now embarked upon the career for which he had been originally intended and for which his studies had equipped him; that he was a man of medicine and not of war; a healer, not a slayer.”

“Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha!”

“It is not human to be wise,’ said Blood. ‘It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.”

“When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself”