For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.