With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

Blessed is the heart that does not collect resentments and often dwells on them.

there's only one thing we can depends on when we dying, it's faith .

When I'm getting a chance to do my job or make somebody's day, and be on stage where I love, and see all the fans having fun, you can't help but smile.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.

I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

I've never not been famous.