Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

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

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!

We die, because we live.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.