A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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!

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.