When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly rem….

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and ….

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves..

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printe….

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulg….

Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our g….

For my part I love sleepy fellows, and the more ignorant the better. Damn your wide-awake and knowing chaps. As for sleepiness, itis one of the noble….

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers..

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life..

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed..

Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning….

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future..

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin..

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead..

I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or….

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character..

The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls….

Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness..

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember..

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world..

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie..