Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.