Make up your mind to be happy.

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

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

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.