Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.