Friends as a rule are a mistake. - Marcus Clarke

Friendship, if you know how to work it, is better than a cousin in Parliament.

He couldn't be content with small profits, so he took to cards, and was shot aboard a river steamboat. God bless him. He died like a hero, with a king up his sleeve.

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!