💬 Quotes

"As Harvey's limbs filled out and hardened, so did his temper, and he soon learned to take a man's share of the work."

"Up there you work; down here you loaf. But I don't see no manner of use in a fellow loafing his life away."

"The sea had given him a new face and a new set of limbs, and he had learned to know the value of money because he had seen what it cost to drag it out of the cold grey sea."

"It's a great thing for a boy to have a chance to show what's in him before his mother spoils him."

"The world is full of wonderful things, and we've got to find out what they are."

"Mother was always there when they woke up, and she was always bright and 'nice,' and she never seemed to be cross or tired, or if she was, she managed not to let them know it."

"It is quite astonishing how much nicer people are to you if you are nice to them."

"If you really want to do a thing, and keep on wanting to do it, you're bound to happen on the way sooner or later."

"Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

"It is a dreadful thing to grow up and not believe in things, but it is worse still to grow up and not be believed in."

"O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear..."

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet..."

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast."

"A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me."

"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

"The noble ruin of her magic, doth / Enfeebled mine."

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety: other women cloy / The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry / Where most she satisfies."

"The odds is gone, / And there is nothing left remarkable / Beneath the visiting moon."

"His delights / Were dolphin-like; they showed his back above / The element they lived in."