God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.