I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.