To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

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

True places are not found on maps.

I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.