Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.