The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.

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.

Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.