There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

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

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair