If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.