Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.