and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

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

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

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.