"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes to pawing over his old clothes."

"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

"It is better to be a fool than to be wise."

"The sea, though it be the image of the ungraspable phantom of life, is yet the only visible symbol of eternity."

"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the folly of man."