The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

What darkness to you is light to me

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.