In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.