Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.