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!
Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.
Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
In the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appe...
Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives.
One more step, Mr. Hands, said I, and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know, I added with a chuckle.
Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart.
Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
To the Hesitating Purchaser:If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold,If schooners, islands, and maroons And Buccaneers and buried GoldAnd all the old romance, retold, Exactl...
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
If he be Mr. Hyde he had thought, I shall be Mr. Seek.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
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 faith...
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.