He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

We cannibals must help these Christians.

The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

Failure is the test of greatness.

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

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.