To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married.

Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

I would prefer not to.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.