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 st….

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-….

But of works of art little can be said..

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful..

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or….

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world..

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . ..

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

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

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?.

Make up your mind to be happy..

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude....

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper sour….

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all..

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization..

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not al….

You must suffer me to go my own dark way..

We can only know others by ourselves..

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitat….

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong..