Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands but in the heart itself.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Everyone lives by selling something.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.