Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle glass--an iron wall to them; half-naked shivering figures stopped to gaze at Chinese shawls and golden stuffs of India.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.