“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”

“Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing.”

“Danglers alone was content and joyous, he had got rid of an enemy and preserved his situation on board the Pharaon; Danglers was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and that life would diminish, the total of the amount.”

“I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.”

“It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!”

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.”