We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

All truth is profound.

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.