True places are not found on maps.

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.