Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

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

The fact is, that among his hunters at least, the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.