Nothing like a little judicious levity..

I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it..

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive..

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others..

Saints are sinners who kept on going..

I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, eve….

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet a….

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend..

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity..

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain..

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by..

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and d….

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses..

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak..

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm..

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home..

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who ….

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guid….

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed..

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on..