You don't stop to think when the trouble's on you; you think as you go.

If I'd stopped to think, I'd have funked the whole thing, I suppose--jumping from that box onto the stage, and grabbing a lady in my arms, all in the open, as it were.

But that wouldn't have been the natural man.

The natural man that's in most of us, even when we're not very clever, does things right.

It's when the conventional man comes in and says, Let us consider, that we go wrong.
By Jingo, Al'mah was as near having her beauty spoiled as any woman ever was; but she's only got a few nasty burns on the arm and has singed her hair a little." "You've seen her to-day, then ?" Stafford looked at him with some curiosity, for the event was one likely to rouse a man's interest in a woman.