Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket….

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that..

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up..

Father Mapple paused a little; then kneeling in the pulpit's bows, folded his large brown hands across his chest, uplifted his closed eyes, and offer….

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?.

My body is but the lees of my better being..

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere….

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had be….

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing..

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence..

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton..

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses..

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence..

Ignorance is the parent of fear..

Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing..

In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in S….

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below..

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another..

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Le….

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing..

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease..