From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures.

The easiest way of life is the best.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

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

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.