Johnston Mcculley Quotes

He has robbed none except officials who have stolen from the missions and the poor, and punished none except brutes who mistreat natives.

expect in many growed-up men you’d call sensible there’s a little boy sleepin’—the little kid they onced was—that still keeps his fear of the dark.

trust that you now perceive the same act may wear as many different hues of right or wrong as the rainbow, according to the atmosphere in which it is done.

She knew her cow-boy lover, with all that he lacked, to be more than ever she could be, with all that she had. He was her worshipper still, but her master, too.

I have missed the point in thinking of my own feelings.

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I’d feel myself a failure.

Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

For the last twenty minutes, having something to do, he had become himself again, had come to earth from that unsafe country of the brain

we had talked ourselves into silence.

The persecution would cease instantly, for the commands of a Vega were made to be obeyed by all men of whatever rank.

Ha! A laggard at love-and in your pressence? What ails the man? Is he ill?

Stealing from a thief is no crime, only irony.