If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.