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

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

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.