Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.