And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

We cannibals must help these Christians.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

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