Never test another man by your own weakness.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.