At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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.
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Truth is in things, and not in words.
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.