I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry