Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.

Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.