To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

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

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.