Wine is bottled poetry.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.