Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

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

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

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

Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.