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

Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations; whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.

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.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.