We cannibals must help these Christians.

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

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

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

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.

for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.