A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all He would still be there within us waiting to give us good on this earth.
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
And finally I twist my heart round again so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be and could be if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.
Life's pretty good and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate after all.