Honor lies in the mane of a horse.

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.

Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.