I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Everyone lives by selling something.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

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.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.