Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.