...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.