Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

We die of too much life.