You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.