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.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

We cannibals must help these Christians.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.