You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Live life to the fullest.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.