Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.