You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing..

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian..

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great..

True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world ….

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty..

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true..

A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil ….

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise….

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite..

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many….

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils..

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that..

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a….

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who….

In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and ….

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe..

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after..

Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a ….

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid..

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the though….