But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.