There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

When a child is born the mother also is born again.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.