You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.

The pleasure of leaving home, care-free, with no concern but to enjoy, has also as a pendant the pleasure of coming back to the old hearthstone, the home to which, however traveled, the heart still fondly turns, ignoring the burden of its anxieties and cares.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

I never fancied broiling fowls; - though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.