There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

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

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.