... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

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

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.

[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

... the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril,

God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

Life is ever since man was born licking honey from a thorn.

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world now lies he there And none so poor to do him reverence.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a good deal more dangerous to the polity than the people at large.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

I'm not pushing myself forward in denial of the moment. I'm pushing myself forward and enjoying every moment voraciously. I'm thinking about the next thing but not at the expense of the present.

You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.