I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting… - Robert Louis Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden and the family have to change their name.

Thus in the best fabric of duplicity, there is some weak point, if you can strike it, which will loosen all.

I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him — that's what I say, and you may lay to it.

It's a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected.