Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.

The rain is falling all around,It falls on field and tree,It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Wine is bottled poetry

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in;...

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.

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...

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

To My MotherYou too, my mother, read my rhymesFor love of unforgotten times,And you may chance to hear once moreThe little feet along the floor.

The VagabondGive to me the life I love,Let the lave go by me,Give the jolly heaven aboveAnd the byway nigh me.Bed in the bush with stars to see,Bread I dip in the river -There’s the...

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...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and...

To be honest, to be kind – to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a...

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

He recollected his courage.

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...

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic...

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 difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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...

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top...

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set...

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

…with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

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.