Book: Hearts of three

The phone rang. Francis's face twitched from irritation.
- For God's sake, talk to you, Parker. If it is some stupid, playing the market, tell them I died, or drunk, or lying in a fever, or getting married - in short, think of something terrible.

- And you swore revenge to the grave those who destroyed your prison.
But that is not the case when it would cost fifty dollars with gold.

The laws created by humans, are reduced in our days to the contest of wits. They are based not on justice, but on sophistry. Laws were created for the benefit of men, but in their interpretation and application, the people went astray. They took the path to the goal for the goal, the method of action for the final result. And yet laws are laws, they are necessary, they are useful. But these days they are used at random. Judges and lawyers philosophize, competing with each other in the resourcefulness of the mind, boast of their learning and completely forget about the plaintiffs and defendants who pay them and forward them resourcefulness and learning, and the impartiality and justice.

- What makes you break up with me and driving somewhere, just you are a slave?
- Business and it is very important to me.
- And who this Business is and why it has such power over you, mighty king? That's the name of your God whom all of you worship as my people worship the Sun God?
Francis smiled, marveling at the accuracy of her comparison and said,
- Yes, this is the great American God. And God is very terrible: when he punishes, it punishes quickly and terribly.
- And you caused his displeasure? she asked.
Alas Yes, though I don't know what. I have to go now to wall street...
Is where his altar is? - 'she interrupted him with a question.
- Yes, there is his altar, and where I know what I made and what can propitiate, to atone.

Better at any moment to die a man than live cattle.

The one who pays the ransom for his enemy, must be either very good, or very stupid, or very rich.

For men, perhaps, the most important is the rule of honor, which they themselves had invented, and for women the main thing - the dictates of their loving hearts.

I will love you so much you will forget about this man, and the recollection of it never give your heart to sanity.

However, the feeling of self-righteousness, as he discovered in this case, is not enough to feel happy.

And when one knows, why bother checking?

Nevertheless, he managed to master himself and spoke with her voice of reason and not of the heart, powerfully reminding about yourself.

Man who hurt the love of a woman, is only half a man.