The sea is his; he is but a copycat of the true owner.

I have no objection to any person's religion, be in what it may, so long as that person does not kill or murder any other in its name.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand!

Any man who has gone farther and fared worse than ever, may console himself with the thought that it could be the albatross or the flying Dutchman.

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

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

From hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

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

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.