Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

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.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.