She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.