“If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.”

“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.”

“A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.”

“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”

“Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.”

“I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.”

“The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.”