Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

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.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.