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 greater strength among many barbarous people.
But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.
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 thoughts.
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.
All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.
Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
