"The mate was fixed by the bos’n’s pike, The bos’n brained with a marlinspike."

"A flimsy shift on a bunker cot, With a thin dirk-slot through the bosom spot And the lace stiff-dry in a purplish blo…"

"We wrapped ’em all in a mains’l tight, With twice ten turns of a hawser’s bight, And we heaved ’em over and out of si…"

"You see I lost two years going to school—from seven to nine years old. I was put out of all the private schools for i…"

"The great muse of History ranks first in dignity, power and usefulness; but who will say that at her court the Prime …"

"The microbe that might have become glorious ounces of brain has been content at first to become merely a little wart …"

"Old straight whiskey! That is the drink of life— Consolation, family, friends and wife! So make your glasses ready, P…"

"I might almost define a lie as being the narrative of a human event that had been printed."

"Suppose every word that every member of this intelligent and most respectable audience has said today:—the merchant t…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"