“Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent.”
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.”
“Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.”
“For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move”
“Ah, said Silver, it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would have let old john be cut to bits, and never given it a thought, doctor.'Not a thought,' replied Dr. Livesey cheerily.”
“The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.”