Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

If he be Mr. Hyde” he had thought, “I shall be Mr. Seek.

But the truth of his teaching would seem to be this: in our own person and fortune, we should be ready to accept and to pardon all; it is our cheek we are to turn,...

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

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

Don’t you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

Wild horses wouldn’t draw it from you?

Alan,” cried I, “what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?”Deed, and I don’t, know” said Alan. “For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye,...

Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our...

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on duty here; he knows not how or why, and does...

Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship’s doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter’s mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner’s servants, landsmen–being all that is left faithful of the ship’s company–with stores for ten days...

Doctors is all swabs.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the...

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

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to...

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

It may be argued again that dissatisfaction with our life’s endeavor springs in some degree from dulness. We require higher tasks, because we do not recognise the height of those we have.

Ah, there,” said Morgan, “that comed of sp’iling Bibles.””That comes–as you call it–of being arrant asses,” retorted the doctor.

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by...

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

…That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay...

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.

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...

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we...

I have lost confidence in myself.

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

,Acaso hay algo en la vida que decepcione tanto como lograr lo que se quiere?

REQUIEMUnder the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie:Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where...

He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration.

Certainly, if money could have been raised upon the book, Robert Herrick would long ago have sacrificed that last possession: but the demand for literature, which is so marked a feature in some parts of...

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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;

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,...

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...