Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

The Navy is very old and very wise.

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.