Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.