There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.