When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be gl….

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me..

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst..

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete..

I believe in an ultimate decency of things..

We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it no….

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man..

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect..

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying..

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who h….

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art ….

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of….

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being..

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; an….

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well….

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an untea….

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week..

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner..

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for ….