If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.