He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But, alas, since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of- war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.