In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.