Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.

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.

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.