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.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

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.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.