The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

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

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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.