Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.