If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.