But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

The easiest way of life is the best.

That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.