Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and k….

One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used?.

Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end, Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must its ignorant impulse lend-- Age find….

Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of m….

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea..

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized….

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to….

We die, because we live..

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And no….

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and ear….

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is..

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and fo….

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas..

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God..

We die of too much life..

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it..

Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain gre….

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, cran….

I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitabl….

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee..

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect..