Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.