“The man was right who said that salt water was a cure for everything...in one of three forms, tears, sweat, or the sea.”

“Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”

“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”

“Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person, not only changed, but for the better”

“Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.”

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”

“there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?”