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.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.