There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.