“You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something and you cant. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor lit...”

“This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speakthe sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, ...”

“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it al...”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”