"Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick...

"The man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober...

"Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever."

"The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root...

"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still...

"I always go to sea as a sailor because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny...

"Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright."

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

"Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Surely...

"Verily there is nothing new under the sun."