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.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.

I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.