I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

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

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.