It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It's a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.