Frederick Marryat

“It is a very fine thing to be a hero, but a very embarrassing matter to be a hero in waiting.”

“There is no real happiness in life, unless we are serving God and our country.”

“The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development.”

“Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.”

“The worst of all things is to be left alone among a crowd of smiling enemies.”

“Fear is a contagion, but so is courage.”

“I always have a sympathy for single men. It is my opinion that every man should marry, if it is only for the sake of having one person to contradict him.”

“But it is a fact that a man's pluck is in his stomach, and when that is empty, he is what the milk-maids call 'all-over-ish.'”

“There is no such thing as a trifle in this world.”

“It is always the way of the world, for the faults of the deserving to be canvassed, while those of the unworthy are passed over in silence.”

“All's fair in love and war.”

“The great art of life is to moderate our passions.”