Am I no a bonny fighter?

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

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.