How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad – simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
Civilization is like air or water. Wherever there is a passage, be it only a fissure, it will penetrate and modify the conditions of a country.
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
As for seeing the town, he did not even think of it, being of that breed of Britons who have their servants do their sightseeing for them.
A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
A learned man ought to know a little of everything.