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.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.