Frank R Stockton Quotes

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

There is nothing better,” said Barbel, noticing my glance toward this novel counterpane, “for a bed covering than newspapers: they keep you as warm as a blanket, and are much lighter. I used to use Tribunes, but they rattled too much.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

When the buccaneers had begun to understand each other and to effect organizations among themselves, they adopted a general name,—"The Brethren of the Coast." The outside world, especially the Spanish world, called them pirates, sea-robbers, buccaneers,—any title which would express their lawless character, but in their own denomination of themselves they expressed only their fraternal relations; and for the greater part of their career, they truly stood by each other like brothers.