You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

The truth was, I suppose, that a man of so small an income, could not afford to sport such a lustrous face and a lustrous coat at one and the same time.

For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.

Baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverise the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make.

There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most desired health.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.