It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

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

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.