Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.

The dead, blind wall butts all inquiring heads at last.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe."

"Ha, ha, my ship! thou mightest well be taken now for the sea-chariot of the sun. Ho, ho! all ye nations before my prow, I bring the sun to ye! Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!"

Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

I would up heart, were it not like lead. But my whole clock's run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again.

For as the swift monster drags you deeper and deeper into the frantic shoal, you bid adieu to circumspect life and only exist in a delirious throb.

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