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

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.