Wine is bottled poetry.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

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.