“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”

“Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink”

“You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved.”

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”

“No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise;Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes.On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!”

“And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.'They clattered upstairs, injured virtue on every inch of their backs.'But - but what the dickens have we done?' said Harrison, amazedly, to Craye.'I don't know. Only - it always happens that way when one has anything to do with them. They're so beastly plausible.”

“Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.”