If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing and tried to think nothing.

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

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.