We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that….

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will ….

But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is dee….

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade..

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe th….

There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to othe….

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head.

Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther shadows pass….

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity..

And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but….

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes,….

Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning..

In glades they meet skull after skull Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun, Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat And cuddled up skeleton;….

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, i….

It is not down in any map; true places never are..

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?.

Will you, or will you not, quit me? I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. "I would prefer not to quit you", he replied, gently ….

The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the ….

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we ….

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of peop….