"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

"Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul."

"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."

"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

"A good conscience is eight parts of courage."

"Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther."

"It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face."

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

"Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense."

"Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors; if it may not, give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christ's sake."

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

"Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head."

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil."

"Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble."

"And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something."The score!" he burst out. "Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!"And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again."

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words."

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

"With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy."

"The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger--the black flag of piracy--flying from her peak."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."

"The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep."

"You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."

"In each of us, two natures are at war " the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose " what we want most to be we are."

"There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others."

"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."

"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."

"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?"

"When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys."

"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

"The world has no room for cowards."

"Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"

"For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."

"Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."

"Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?'Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.'Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.'I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain."

"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."

"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself."