I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like th...
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,
I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plai...
Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?
There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is hu...
Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the fo...
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing.
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer, I...