“One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.”

“They think the privateer’s life one of nothing but adventure, violence, evasion, and escape. But, between letters of marque, bills of lading, rosters, inventories, and plunder contracts, it involves, in fact, more paperwork than any thing else.”

“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.”

“A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.”

“That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate prejudices between Nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.”

“An accomplished woman almost always knows more than we men, though her knowledge is of a different sort. I am sure you could teach me a thousand things--as an exquisite bird could teach a bear if there were any common language between them. Happily, there is a common language between women and men, and so the bears can get taught.”

“The Chinese used the intervals between things as the primary means of getting 'in touch' with situations.”

“At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.”

“The dollar bill is above many other currencies. In other words, paper is more valuable than silver and gold.”

“Climbing uphill, one dollar bill, this town is far.”