Book: Treasure island

For thirty years I have been sailing the seas, "he said. I have seen both good and bad — and calm and storms." And hunger, and stabbing, and you never know what else, but believe me, I have never seen virtue bring any benefit to a person. The one who hits first is right. The dead don't bite. That's all my faith. Amen!

Silver hopped on his crutch, banged his fist on the table and said with such sincere indignation that even the judge in the old Bailey or a London policeman would believe in his complete innocence. <...> Finally got back to those two, whom he sent in pursuit of the Black Dog. Panting, they announced that the Black Dog managed to escape from them in the crowd. And the Keeper began to scold them with such fury that I was finally convinced of the innocence of the Lanky John.
Listen, Hawkins, 'said he,' for me this story could end badly. Think about my captain Trelawney? This damned Dutchman was sitting in my house and guzzling my drink!

You never can say in advance what will affect the superstitious people.

Sea bandits as cold as the sea in which they swim.

I have no doubt that we can beat them, if you want to win.

In the open sea! To hell with the treasure! The sea, and the treasure makes me dizzy.

And those of you who remain alive will envy the dead!

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

This Ben Gunn can rely on? he asked.
- I don't know, sir, ' I replied. I'm not quite sure that his head is in order.
- If I'm not quite sure, so he's OK, ' said the doctor. - When a person three years biting his nails on a desert island, Jim, it may not look just as normal as you or me. That's how people are.

Some were afraid to Drink, others flint. And I feared the flint.

Drink and the devil had done to the end.

- This is what happens to those who spoils the Holy Bible, - Morgan said.
- It happens with someone who is stupid as a donkey.

The team he was desperate. The devil himself and he would not have dared to embark with her in the open sea.

It is not the ability to make money, but the ability to save...