To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.
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 life for a man lik...
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.
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; and how every d...
The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debateare as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements andalarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and itfell out with...
Love- what is love?A great and aching heart;Wrung hands;
It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, e...
It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;
I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
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 vigils.
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 loya...
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renew...
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful ship...
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward - Long John Silver
O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death--there stood Henry...