The world is large, when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small, when your enemy is loose on the other side

The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls.

I tend to do a lot better here when it's big rather than when its small.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy

And a toiler dies in a day.