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.

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

we had talked ourselves into silence.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stealing from a thief is no crime, only irony.

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