He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

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

I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

You cannot hide the soul.

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.