I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.