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.