By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Your religion is where your love is.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.