Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.