Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Life is short, break the rules.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.