For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal..

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature..

We cannot live for ourselves alone..

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit..

The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds….

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two….

Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it..

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures..

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hamme….

Immortality is but ubiquity in time..

Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him ….

There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming….

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim..

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day..

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain..

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens..

The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact….

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in..

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance..