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.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

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

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.