Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

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!

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry