To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.