I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.