Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

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 help us for we knew the worst too young.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards