Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.