Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

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

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.