All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

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

We cannot live for ourselves alone.