The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of an old iniquity, should leap to light there.

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;