“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,”

“Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’– Book 3, Chapter 16”

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”

“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”

“I am not one of your repentant sinners, Kenneth. I have lived my life—God, what a life!—and as I have lived I shall die, unflinching and unchanged. Dare one to presume that a few hours spent in whining prayers shall atone for years of reckless dissoluteness? 'Tis a doctrine of cravens, who, having lacked in life the strength to live as conscience bade them, lack in death the courage to stand by that life's deeds. I am no such traitor to myself.”

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

“I regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.”