We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.