Wine is bottled poetry.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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”.
I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
There’s never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a’terward” – Long John Silver.
It was Silver’s voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
Dead men don’t bite.
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives.
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
Thems that die’ll be the lucky ones.
I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.
He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face.
Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?
Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye’ll taste this steel throughout your vitals.
And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.
But what is the black spot, captain?
The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I’m bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.
The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that.