San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of remarkable beauty |
She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green. |
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. |
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go! |
Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole. |
Success and failure are the same impostor |
Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law. |
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. |
Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard. |
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. |
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs |
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man! |
The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. |
The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go! |
The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine |