Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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.
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.
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
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!
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
We can only know others by ourselves.
Everyone lives by selling something.