So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.

The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.