Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.