There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

We die, because we live.

We cannot live for ourselves alone.

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.