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

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

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.