Цитаты из книги «Копи царя Соломона», страница 3

Я же, как человек пожилой и умудренный опытом, заранее предвидел, что это повлечет за собой одни лишь бесконечные осложнения и неприятности, которые женщины, к сожалению, всегда приносят, что так же неизбежно, как то, что за днем следует ночь.

The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned it.

For to my mind, however beautiful a view may be, it requires the presence of man to make it complete, but perhaps that is because I lived so much in the wilderness, and therefore know the value of civilisation, though to be sure it drives away the game.

...simple things are always the most impressive...

“Thou fool,” shrieked the old fiend, “thou accursed fool, thinkest thou that life is sweet only to the young? It is not so, and naught thou knowest of the heart of man to think it. To the young, indeed, death is sometimes welcome, for the young can feel. They love and suffer, and it wrings them to see their beloved pass to the land of shadows. But the old feel not, they love not, and, ha, ha! they laugh to see another go out into the dark; ha, ha! they laugh to see the evil that is done under the sun. All they love is life, the warm, warm sun, and the sweet, sweet air. They are afraid of the cold; afraid of the cold and the dark, ha, ha, ha!”

Yet man dies not while the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is forgotten, indeed, but the breath he breathed yet stirs the pine tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited today; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he felt are our familiar friends - the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also.Truly the universe is full of ghosts; not sheeted, churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable and immortal elements of life, which, having once been, can never die, though they blend and change and change again forever.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

"Как мало мы думаем о других, когда дело касается нашей безопасности, тщеславия или репутации"

"Когда человек является знатоком лишь одного дела, он стремится поддерживать свой авторитет своим мастерством"

Пока человек жив, нельзя терять надежду.