The smack of California earth ...

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

There were nights when he took...

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

If you wish the pick of men an...

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

Lastly no woman should marry a...

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this 'ignoble tobagie' as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

It is not for nothing, either,...

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

Once I guessed right, And I go...

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

Youth is wholly experimental....

Youth is wholly experimental.

A man should stop his ears aga...

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

The very flexibility and ease ...

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

Mankind was never so happily i...

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

It is almost as if the millenn...

It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.

The world was made before Engl...

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

The true success is to labour....

The true success is to labour.

You have no idea, unless you h...

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

I kept always two books in my ...

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

The best things are nearest: b...

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Make up your mind to be happy....

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

In winter I get up at night

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.

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We were to found a University ...

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

A proposition of geometry does...

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.