John Meade Falkner Quotes

“All that great wealth came to my hands, and if I do not say how great it was, ‘tis that I may not wake envy, for it was far more than I could have thought.”

“I can neither turn the stone out myself, nor stop you from turning it out if you so mind; but if you do this thing, and dishonour the graveyard, there is One stronger than either you or I that must be reckoned with.”

“As in life, so in a game of hazard, skill will make something of the worst of throws.”

“Thou art my diamond, and I would rather lose all other diamonds in the world than aught should come to thee. So, if thou doubtest, let me go, or let not any go at all.”

″...remember that there are other treasures besides this, and that a good woman’s love is worth far more than all the gold and jewels of the world...”

“So they stumbled along drenched with the waves, and clustered round Elzevir, for they looked on him as a leader, because he knew the ways of the sea and was the only one left calm in this dreadful strait.”

“Have a care how you touch the treasure; it was evilly come by, and will bring a curse with it.”

“I pray that our end may be in as good cause when it comes. For with the best of us the hour of death is an awful hour, and we may well pray, as every Sunday, to be delivered in it.”

“I was he who had come through the surf last night alive, and this poor body was my friend who had laid down his life for me.”

″...to think that he had given up the safety he had won for himself, and laid down his life, there on the beach, for me...”