You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

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!

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.