Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

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.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.