Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.