True places are not found on maps..

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods..

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things..

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti..

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck..

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it..

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers..

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where….

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none..

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well..

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love..

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them..

Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism..

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob..

Meditation and water are wedded for ever..

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is bu….

See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of oil. .….

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy..

Honor lies in the mane of a horse..

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself..

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge..