Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”

“Ah, said Silver, it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would ha…”

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”

“To the Hesitating Purchaser:"If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventu…”