I recommend all adventurous youths who abandon vessels in romantic islands during the rainy season to provide themselves with umbrellas. Typee
As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them. Fragment
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. Counsels and Maxims
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. Book IV
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