My body is but the lees of my better being.
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.
Ignorance is the parent of fear.