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

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

Failure is the test of greatness.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

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

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

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

My body is but the lees of my better being.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

The eyes are the gateway to the soul.

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.

I’m lost then I’m found. But it’s torture being in love.

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

We’re lost, but we’re making good time.

Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.

Music is incredible, the act of throwing reality out the window and getting lost.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.