Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Never let your love for your profession overshadow your religious feeling. Depend on it that religion will strengthen, not weaken, your energies, and will not only make you a better sailor, but a superior man. Professional studies are not to be neglected; but, on the other hand, take care how you fall into the common error of believing they are the remedy for all the ills of life.

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.