You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.