From Schools and School Masters "Another point of difference between the male and female schools is still more characteristic of the...

From The Tail "Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength...

From : The Fountain "Rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim...

From: The Grand Armada "Witness, too, all human beings, how when herded together in the sheepfold of a theatre’s pit, they will, at the...

From The Monkey-Rope "If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die. True, you...

From The Monkey-Rope "I seemed distinctly to perceive that my own individuality was now merged in a joint stock company of two; that my...

From: The Jeroboam's Story "Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic...

"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn...

"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously...