A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.
The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.
Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.