So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

I have not the most definite designs on the future.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.