I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench.