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Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.
In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.
For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.