Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

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

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.