The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.