Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. |
Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages |
Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod. |
Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came - the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water. |
Pull out, pull out on the Long Trail - the trail that is always new! |
San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty |
She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green. |
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. |
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! |
Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole. |
Success and failure are the same impostor |
Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law. |
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. |
Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard. |
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. |