Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

I wish these flies would piss off.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.