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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

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?

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.