“Whistling to keep up courage is good practice for whistling.”

“So he whistles it off, and marches on”

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

“First she said we were to keep clear of the Sirens, who sit and sing most beautifully in a field of flowers; but she said I might hear them myself so long as no one else did. Therefore, take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I cannot possibly break away, and lash the rope's ends to the mast itself. If I beg and pray you to set me free, then bind me more tightly still.”

“Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.”

“I was never part of the "in" crowd, because as I stood outside the circle, everyone looked the same.”

“The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him.”