I said nothing of the sort.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.