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

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.