“The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.”

“I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality”

“Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free.”

“I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books.”

“I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.”

“For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter than the presence of delight.”

“But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves.Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.”