You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.