To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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

Live life to the fullest.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.