Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

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.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.