For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.