He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.