“A man who knows that time and the train wait for no man.”

“You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”

“The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.”

“I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.”

“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.”

“The face of a man who had sipped life's vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and good whiskey at that.”

“The sailors do not mind the arrangement, for they know that this way there will, at the least, be one person who, at the last, will notice when they do not come back from the sea, and will mourn their loss; and their wives content themselves with the certain knowledge that their husbands are also unfaithful, for there is no competing with the sea in a man's affections, since she is both mother and mistress, and she will wash his corpse also, in time to come, wash it to coral and ivory and pearls.”