Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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.

Everyone lives by selling something.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

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