It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

Believe the best of everybody.