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.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

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

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.