"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the folly of man."

"Truly, to enjoy thoroughly the true poetry of the sea, your poem must preserve all its wildest prose."

"There are no pains that great love cannot assuage."

"To be short, I am not a Christian, but a heathen, and a cannibal."

"There is nothing in the world so much like a man as a ship."