A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.