For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

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.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

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

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.