I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak mo….

But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have tur….

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly….

I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever befo….

What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or….

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich..

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water..

Are there no Moravians in the Moon, that not a missionary has yet visited this poor pagan planet of ours, to civilise civilisation and christianise C….

The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,--the eve….

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I w….

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn..

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king..

Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a comin….

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Ye….

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (Yo….

When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, th….

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own..

Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him….

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters..

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things..

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round..