Though I don't like the crew, I won't sink the ship. In fact, in time of storm I'll do my best to save it. You see, we are all in this craft and must sink or swim together.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.