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.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

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

His face was filled with broken commandments.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.