All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.