Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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

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