The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

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

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

But of works of art little can be said.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.