I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

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