God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.