Book: Captain blood

Ingratitude, of course, the human property, but to prove it is childish.

Captain blood used to say that a person should not be judged by his ability to conceive a great enterprise, but by the way he is able to recognize the opportunity and promptly use it.

One of the strangest features of human nature is that people have a solid idea about some things, yet is horrified when convinced that his view is true.

... crazy revenge is the property of those people who do wrong and wrong. They bring themselves to madness, to justify any of their actions.

... my price is exactly ten feet. That is the sum your uncle paid for me. Not everyone has a similar opportunity to know his worth.

Humanity is shown not only in reasonable actions. Sometimes it is better to err in the name of humanity, even if this error, even as an exception, due to compassion.

Injustice, perfect for any Royal servant, to some extent, dishonors the king himself.

In an effort to signal a goal, people are often willing to take risks, willing to believe in the possibility of good luck.

When a man for a woman is risking his life, it is easy, of course, to suggest that he is personally interested in this, as in the world there are very few men who would risk, not hoping to receive anything in return.

Man is not the crown of nature and her disgusting creation, and only an idiot would choose for himself a profession of a healer these creatures who deserved destruction.

The person must be able to occasionally laugh at himself, otherwise he will go crazy. About it, unfortunately, very few people know, and that is why there are so many crazy.

Haste never leads to no good.

The prison is a prison, even if it is very spacious, and it has no walls and bars.

- Is life so sad and in other places?
- It's made for such people.