Everything he touched turned to gold. When he married an heiress even she died of the yellow fever. - Marcus Clarke

I have examined you long enough. I have read your heart, and written out your secrets! You are but a shell—the shell that holds a corrupted and sinful heart. He shall live; you shall die!

As Mr Burnett said to me long ago, 'Q———, you will never be one of us. You have ruined your constitution by early temperance.'

A Man of Business is one who becomes possessed of other people's money without bringing himself under the power of the law.