The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.