If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.