“OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world…”

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.