Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.