“This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?”

“I was the giant great and stillThat sits upon the pillow-hill,And sees before him, dale and plain,The pleasant land of counterpane.”

“We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.”

“But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were.”

“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives.”

“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”