The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political ….

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward..

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him..

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions..

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'.

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-….

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at ….

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized..

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women..

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me..

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, ….

I try all things, I achieve what I can..

All experience teaches that, whenever there is a great national establishment, employing large numbers of officials, the public must be reconciled to….

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery..

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible..

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method..

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind..

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them..

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth..