I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.