H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain

"How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?"

H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain

"Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds."

H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain

"How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity"

H. Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain