They told me the first mourner to come was the dog. He came uninvited, and stood up on his hind legs and rested his fore paws upon the trestle, and took a last long look at the face that was so dear to him, then went his way as silently as he had come. HE KNOWS.

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They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Playing whist by the cabin lamps when it is storming outside is pleasant; walking the quarterdeck in the moonlight is pleasant; smoking in the breezy foretop is pleasant when one is not afraid to go up there; but these are all feeble and commonplace compared with the joy of seeing people suffering the miseries of seasickness.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

The dollar their god, how to get it their religion.

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

Morals are an acquirement, like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis, no man is born with them.

Why shoudnt truth be stranger than fiction Fiction after all has to stick to the possibilities.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.