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.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.