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

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.