A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

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.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

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.

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.