[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

If you can't sent money, send tobacco.