There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.
True places are not found on maps.
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.
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized.
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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