For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.