When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.