This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

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.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.