Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God.

Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

Great towers take time to construct.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.