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

“That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in the ammassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.”

“[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

“I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.”

“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”

“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”