There are neither rates nor taxes nor rents to be paid.

The government is the softest despotism under which subjects were ever allowed to do almost just as they please.

That the captain has a power is known, but hardly felt.

He smiles on all, is responsible for everything, really rules the world submitted to him, from the setting of the sails down to the frying of the chops, and makes one fancy that there must be something wrong with men on shore because first-class nations cannot be governed like first-class ships.
The Goldfinder had on board her over a hundred first-class passengers, and nearly as many of the second class.

The life among them was much of the same kind, though in the second class there was less of idleness, less of pleasure, and something more of an attempt to continue the ordinary industry of life.