Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.