Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.