Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys.
The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...
From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.
ولكن هذا الخـَوَر العارض سمة تكاد تعم كل الكائنات التي تعيش في القطيع، فالجواميس البرية في الغرب الأمريكي - ذات الأعراف كألباد الأسود - تحتشد في أعداد تبلغ عشرات الألوف، وتفر هاربة أمام خيّال واحد وتأ...
وكلما ازددتُ تأملا في هذا الذنـَب الجبار زاد أسفي لعجزي عن وصفه. فله في بعض الأحيان حركات وإيماءات صوفية لا تـُفسًّر، وإن الحوت حقا يتحدث بهذه الوسائل إلى الكون في ذكاء وفطنة. وحركات الحوت كلها حافلة...
For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men
And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.
Will you, or will you not, quit me?' I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him.'I would prefer not to quit you', he replied, gently emphasizing the not.
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his d...
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
Round the World! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where th...
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a...
I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray shooting-jacket was on my back, and from the end of my brother’s rifle hung a smal...
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him no...
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this...
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provid...
But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it.