Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

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

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.