Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.