It is well for me that the trial did not come in my way." "But you are not such a very poor man now, are you, George?
I thought your business was a good one." "It is, and I have no right to be a poor man.

But a man will be poor who does such mad things as I do.

I had three or four thousand pounds clear, and I spent every shilling of it on the Chelsea election.
Goodness knows whether I shall have a shilling at all when another chance comes round; but if I have I shall certainly spend it, and if I have not, I shall go in debt wherever I can raise a hundred pounds." "I hope you will be successful at last." "I feel sure that I shall.

But, in the mean time, I cannot but know that my career is perfectly reckless.

No woman ought to join her lot to mine unless she has within her courage to be as reckless as I am.
You know what men do when they toss up for shillings ?" "Yes, I suppose I do." "I am tossing up every day of my life for every shilling that I have." "Do you mean that you're--gambling ?" "No.