Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote.

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing