Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.