Quotes from G.A. Henty

His father had been so seriously wounded, at Vimiera, that he was invalided home and placed on half pay; and in the same battle Captain O'Grady lost his left arm but, on its being cured, returned to his place in the regiment.

start. They say that Albemarle

Strike lustily for life, and hurry not your blows, but let each toll.

the treaty was not worth the paper on which it was written. "The

The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

Beyond naming you in my prayers, Thekyn, there is but little that a hermit can do for any man.

there was no saying what might come in useful some day.

The fort has already been named the Fortress of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The capital will be named alike after the patron saint and its founder--Petersburg.

there is no good in knowing people when you are going right away from them in a short time, and may never meet them again.

The money might pay for food and shelter and clothes, but money cannot buy love, and that is what you gave, both of you; and it is for that that we now pay as well as we can.

With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism. Power falls into the hands of the ignorant many. Instead of the destinies of the country being swayed by the wisest and best, a fickle multitude, swayed by interested demagogues, assumes the direction of affairs, and the result is inevitable—wasted powers, gross mismanagement, final ruin.

there is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it,

Science is all very well when a man can afford to make it his hobby, but I have come to the conclusion that a man has no right to ride a hobby while his family have to work to make a living." "But