There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

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