A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

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.

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.