Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.